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FIRST    STATE    LEGISLATURE, 
1896. 


Containing  the  State  Constitution,  I^ist  of  Members  of  the  First  Legislative 
Session  of  the  State,  Members  of  both  Houses  of  the  Legislature,  Senate 
and  House  Committees   and   Employees,  Territorial     and    State 
Ofl&cers,  State  Institutions  and  Boards  of  Government,  Ballots 
for  United  States  Senators,  Supreme  and  District  Court 
Judges,  National  Guard,  Federal  Officials,  Banks,  Cen- 
sus, Population,  Vote  of  all  Officers,  Mines  and 
other  Information    relative  to    the   State    of 
Utah,  incluging  Biographies  of    Members 
of  the  Legislature. 


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The  State  of  Utah. 


In  conformity  with  an  act  of  congress  aproved  September 
9,  1850,  the  Territory  of  Utah  was  organized.  The  Territory 
embraced  within  its  area  was  bounded  on  the  north  by  the  Terri- 
tory of  Oregon,  on  the  east  by  the  summit  of  the  Rocky  moun- 
tains, on  the  south  by  the  thirty-seventh  parallel  of  north  lati- 
tude, and  on  the  west  by  California. 

But  one  of  the  original  boundaries  remain,  that  on  the  south. 
The  boundaries  of  Utah  are  now  as  follows:  Beginning  at  a  point 
formed  by  the  intersection  of  the  thirty-second  degree  of  longi- 
tude west  from  Washington  with  the  thirty-seventh  degree  of 
north  lititude;  thence  due  west  along  said  thirty-seventh  degree  of 
north  latitude  to  the  intersection  of  the  same  with  the  thirty- 
seventh  degree  of  longitude  west  from  Washington; thence  due 
north  along  said  thirty-seventh  degree  of  west  longitude  to  the 
intersection  of  the  same  with  the  forty-second  degree  of  north 
latitude;  thence  due  east  along  said  forty-second  degree  of  north 
latitude  to  the  intersection  of  the  same  with  the  thirty-fourth  de- 
gree of  longitude  west  from  AVashington ;  thence  due  south  along 
said  thirty-fourth  degree  of  west  longitude  to  the  intersection  of 
the  same  with  the  forty-first  degree  of  north  latitude;  thence  due 
east  along  said  forty-first  degree  of  north  latitude  to  the  intersec- 
tion of  the  same  with  the  thirty-second  degree  of  longitude  west 
from  Washington;  thence  due  south  along  said  thirty-second 
degree  of  west  longitude  to  the  place  of  beginninq,-;  an  area  of 
82,190  square  miles.     (Bulletin  Federal  Census,   i8i)0.) 

Topographically  Utah  is  celebrated  for  its  great  mountain 
ranges  and  fertile  valleys.  The  chains  of  nicnintains  all  extend 
north  and  south  except  the  Uintah  range,  which  lies  east  a]?d 
west,  and  out  of  them  all  rise  immense  peaks  to  a  height  of  12,000 
aud   13,000  feet. 

The  Great  Salt  Lake  is  another  nv)st  notable  feature.  Its 
waters  are  impregnated  with  salt  to  a  degree  which  renders  it 
many  times  more  dense  than  sea  water. 

Prior  to  the  advent  of  the  pioneers,  July  24,  1847,  Utah  had 
no  population  beyond  a  few  traders,  traope-s,  etc.,  except  the  In- 
dians. It  was  on  the  date  mentioned  that  the  Mormon  emigrants 
filed  through  "Emigration''  canyon,  in  the  Wasatch  mountains, 
planted  the  American  flag;  on  Ensign  peak,  to  the  north  of  Salt 
Lake  City,  and  founded  the  first  permanent  settlement.     Tliey 


THE  STATE  OF  UTAH. 

were  but  a  band  of  pioneers,  comprising  130  persons,  eighty  men 
and  fifty  women.  They  left  the  Missouri  river  April  16,  '^847, 
and  made  the  journey  across  the  plains  under  the  leadership  of 
Brigham  Young.  The  great  leadership  of  the  man  who  so  long 
led  the  Mormon  people  was  never  better  demonstrated  than  when 
his  foresight  prompted  him  to  halt  his  column  ai'd  take  occu- 
pancy of  Salt  Lake  valley,  here  to  make  the  abiding  place  of 
his  people.  The  little  colony  prospered  and  many  more  emi- 
grants followed  from  year  to  year.  In  1850  the  population  of 
Utah  had  grown  to  11,380  souls.  In  i860  it  was  40,137;  in  1870, 
86,786:  in  1880,  143,963;  in  1890,  207,905.  In  1895  ^  territcrial 
census  gave  the  population  as  247,324. 

Agriculturally,  nature  has  been  kind  indeed  to  this  favored 
region,  and  the  greatest  irrigation  system  in  the  world  enhances 
the  productiveness  of  a  soil  by  nature  marvelously  rich,  to  tlie 
extent  that  enormous  crops  of  grain,  fruit  and  vegetables  are 
raised  which  dwarf  almost  to  puniness  those  01*  eastern  states.  All 
of  Utah's  mountains  carry  depo;»its  of  every  description  of  min- 
eral. Beneath  these  jagged  peaks  are  untold  treasures  of  gold, 
silver  and  lead,  while  more  coal,  copper  and  iron  are  buried  un- 
der the  foot  hills  than  there  is  in  both  Pennsylvania  and  Michi- 
gan. Immense  canyons  open  through  the  mountains,  gateways 
for  the  highways  of  comrrerce,  with  which  the  prospects  are  tTat 
Utah  will  be  abundantly  supplied  in  the  near  future.  On  the 
mountain  slopes  and  plains  graze,  sleek  and  fat,  countless 
flocks  of  sheep  and  herds  of  cattle  and  horses,  the  live  stock  in- 
dustry being  hardly  second  to  either  those  of  mining  or  agri- 
culture. 

This  astounding  variety  of  resources  and  great  wealth  of  the 
state  has  challenged  the  attention  and  consideration  of  ihe  great- 
est capitalists  of  both  the  American  and  Eurojiean  continents, 
and  many  of  them  are  among  the  heaviest  investors  in  this  region. 
In  the  development  of  these  many  and  ^-aried  resources  there  is 
room  for  a  vast  populatioii  to  find  profitable  employment.  The 
economic  advantages  of  the  exchange'  of  pro'luds  is  understood 
by  all  and  not  the  least  advantage  of  the  region  in  this  resj^ect  is 
the  surety  that  a  great  home  market  will  be  here  established. 

AT  FIRST. 

The  beginnings  in  Utah  were  made  by  the  ivIorni'Mis.  The 
first  white  child  was  born  of  parents  who  came  with  the  first  band 


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THE   STATE   OF  UTAH. 

of  pioneers.  It  opened  iti»  eyes  August  8,  1847,  just  two  weeks 
and  two  days  after  the  arrival  on  the  present  site  of  Salt  Lake. 
The  child  v/as  a  girl,  the  daughter  of  John  and  Catherine  Cainp- 
bell  Steele,  and  was  named  Young  Elizabeth  Steele,  after  Brigham 
Young  and  Queen  Elizabeth.  She  is  still  living  and  is  Mrs.  James 
Stapley,  of  Kanarria. 

A  permanent  emigration  fund  was  early  established  by  the 
Saints,  and  on  October  29.  1855,  the  First  Presidency  of  the  ]\Ior- 
mon  church  issued  the  "Thirteenth  Epistle,"  directing  that  the 
Saints  who  emigrated  ar  the  expense  of  that  fund  should  journey 
in-  hand  carts. 

The  first  company  of  emigrants  to  cross  the  plains  by  hand 
carts  arriv';d  at  Salt  Lake  September  26,  1856.  The  party  was 
in  charge  c.i  Captain  Edmund  Ellsworth  and  ^).  D.  Mc Arthur, 
and  was  composed  of  two  companies,  comprising  m  all  497  sculs 
with  100  h?.nd  carts,  5  wagons,  24  oxen,  4  mules  and  25  tents. 
The  pitrty  led  by  Ellsworth  left  Iowa  June  Q,  1856,  ind  ihat  under 
McArthur  the  nth.  The>  were  met  on  their  arrival  :it  Salt  Lake 
by  President  Brigham  Young  with  a  brass  band  and  a  large 
gathering-  r.f  people  and  were  given  a  hearty  welcome. 

Israel  Evans'  company,  consisting  of  154  people  and  31  hand 
carts,  was  the  next  to  arrive,  followed  by  that  of  Edward  Bunker. 

Two  more  companies,  600  strong  in  men,  women  and 
children,  started  west  in  1856.  They  were  in  charge  of  James  G. 
Willis  and  Captain  Edward  Martin.  They  started  late  in  the  year 
and  were  oveitaken  by  a  severe  snow  storm,  which  retarded  their 
progress  to  such  an  extent  that  great  sufifering  was  experienced 
by  many  of  the  party,  and  some  of  the  members  were  obliged  to 
sell  their  personal  effects  to  obtain  provisions.  A  relief  party 
was  «ent  out  frum  Salt  Lake  with  provisions  and  clothing,  and 
on  the  30th  of  November  the  vanguard  of  the  expedition  reached 
Salt  lake.  Other  hand  cart  companies  followed,  some  arriving 
as  late  as  the  middle  of  December  of  that  year,  and  in  1859  and 
"60  a  number  of  these  companies  made  their  way  across  the 
plains  to  the  "Promised  Land." 

UTAH  ADMITTED. 

Utah  was  admitted  January  4th,  1896,  when  President  Cleve- 
land approved  the  bill  admitting  the  Territory  into  the  Union  of 
States.  The  event  was  welcomed  by  the  people  of  Utah  with 
great  rejoicing,  and  on  January  6th  Governor  Heber  M.  Wells 


THE   STATE   OF   UTAH. 

was  inaugurated.  The  inaugural  ceremonies  were  held  in  the 
great  Mormon  taoemacle  and  were  witnessed  by  fully  15,000  peo- 
ple, whose  solemn  reverence  evidenced  the  appreciation  of  the 
whole  people  of  Utah,  of  all  that  the  occasion  betokened.  That 
inauguration  was  more  to  them  than  the  mere  swearing  in  of  new 
officers.  It  was  the  inauguration  of  a  new  era  in  Utah,  the  insolu- 
ble uniting  of  a  divided  people,  and  the  cessation  forever  of  all 
strife  between  the  Mormon  and  Gentile  elements.  A  striking  co- 
incidence, but  one  which  attested  the  sincerity  of  that  unity,  was 
the  fact  that  Chief  Justice  Zane,  who  had  in  years  gone  by  sen- 
tenced so  many  of  the  Mormon  people  to  the  penitentiary  for 
practicing  polygamy,  administered  the  oath  of  ofhce  to  Governor 
Wello  (an  adherent  of  the  Mormon  faith),  as  chief  executive  of 
the  state. 

The  oath  of  office  was  administered  to  all  the  new  State 
officers  and  the  event  ful  day  was  brought  to  a  brilliant  close  with 
a  grand  inaugural  ball  at  the  Salt  Lake  theatre  in  the  evening. 

THE  CAPITAL. 

The  capital  of  Utah  is  Salt  Lake  City,  a  beautiful  city  of 
50,000  inhabitants,  remarkable  for  its  magnificent  broad  streets 
shaded  on  either  side  1)y  tall,  stately  trees  and  along  v/hich  are 
running  water  courses  brought  thither  from  the  surrounding 
mountains.  Utah  has  no  capitol  building  as  yet,  the  State  offices 
being  located  in  the  City  and  County  building,  one  of  the  most 
imposing  and  magnificent  public  structures  in  existence. 

Salt  Lake  is  the  headquarters  of  the  Mormon  church,  and 
the  great  Mormon  temple,  which  cost  over  $2,500,000  to  erect, 
and  the  great  tabernacle,  are  located  in  its  midst.  AH  the  princi- 
pal streets  are  named  beginning  from  the  temple  square  and  are 
designated:  North  Temple,  First  North,  Second  North,  etc.,  and 
east,  south  and  west  to  correspond. 

The  tabernacle  is  famous  as  having  the  largest  seating  ca- 
pacity of  any  building  in  the  world  which  has  an  unsupported 
roof.  The  building  seats  12,000  people  comfortably,  and  so  ex- 
cellent are  the  acoustic  properties  that  a  pin  dropped  .it  the  altar 
can  be  heard  in  the  remotest  corner. 

The  city  is  the  chief  distributing  point  for  the  state.  It  has 
numerous  "warm"  and  "hot"  springs  which  make  it  an  admirable 
health  resort,  and  in  summer  the  Great  Salt  Lake  furnishes  the 
finest  bathing  in  the  world. 


The    Constitutional    Convention. 


The  constitutional  convention  of  the  State  of  Utah,  composed  of  107  members, 
assembled  at  Salt  Lake  City  March  4th,  1895,  in  accordance  with  the  enabling  act 
of  Congress,  approved  July  16th,  1894.  John  Henry  Smith  was  elected  president 
and  Parley  P.  Christensen  secretary.  The  convention  was  in  session  until  the  8th. 
day  of  May,  and  adopted  a  constitution  which  was  approved  by  the  people  at  an 
election  held  on  the  5th  day  of  November  of  the  same  year.  Following  is  the  con- 
stitution: 

PREAMBLE. 

Grateful  to  Almighty  God  for  life  and  liberty,  we.  the  people  of  Utah,  in  order 
to  secure  and  perpetuate  the  principles  of  free  government,  do  ordain  and  estab- 
lish this 


CONSTITUTION, 


ARTICLE    I. 


Declaration    of   Rights. 

Section  1.  All  men  have  the  Inherent 
and  inalienable  right  to  enjoy  and  defend 
their  lives  and  liberties;  to  acQuire,  pos- 
sess and  protect  property;  to  worship  ac- 
cording to  the  dictates  of  their  con- 
sciences; to.  assemble  peaceably,  protest 
against  wrongs,  and  petition  for  redress 
of  grievances;  to  communicate  freely 
their  thoughts  and  opinions,  being  re- 
sponsible  for  the  abuse   of  that   right. 

Sec.  2.  All  political  power  is  inherent  In 
the  people,  and  all  free  governments  are 
founded  on  their  authority  for  their  equal 
protection  and  benefit,  and  they  have  the 
right  to  alter  o"  reform  their  government 
as   the   public   welfare  may  require. 

Sec.  3.  The  State  of  Utah  is  an  insep- 
arable part  of  the  Federal  Union,  and 
the  Constitution  of  the  United  States  is 
the  supreme  law  of  the  land. 

Sec.  4.  Tbe  right  of  conscience  shall 
never  be  infringed.  The  State  shall  make 
no  law  respecting  an  establishment  of  re- 
ligion or  prohibiting  the  free  exercise 
thereof;  no  religious  test  shall  be  re- 
quired as  a  qualification  for  any  office  of 
public  trust  or  for  any  vote  at  any  elec- 
tion, nor  shall  any  person  be  incompe- 
tent as  a  witness  or  juror  on  account  of 
religious  belief  or  the  absence  thereof. 
There  shall  be  no  union  of  church  and 
state,  nor  shall  any  church  dominate  the 
State  or  interfere  with  its  functions.  No 
public  money  or  property  shall  be  appro- 
priated for  or  applied  to  any  religious 
worship,  exercise  or  instruction,  or  for 
the  support  of  any  ecclesiastical  estab- 
lishment. No  property  qualification  shall 
be  required  of  any  personi  to  vote  or  hold 
office,  except  as  provided  in  this  consti- 
tution. !  ,    f      I, 


Sec.  5.  The  privilege  of  the  writ  of  ha- 
beas corpus  shall  not  be  suspended  unless, 
in  case  of  rebellion  or  invasion,  the  public 
safety  requires  it. 

Sec.  6.  The  people  have  the  right  to  bear 
arms  for  their  security  and  defense,  but 
the  legislature  may  regulate  the  exercise 
of  this  right  by  law. 

Sec.  7.  No  person  shall  be  deprived  of 
life,  liberty  or  property  without  due  pro- 
cess  of  law. 

Sec.  8.  All  prisoners  shall  be  bailable 
by  sufficient  sureties,  except  for  capital 
offenses,  when  the  proof  is  evident  or 
the  presumption  strong. 

Sec.  9.  Excessive  bail  shall  not  be  re- 
quired; excessive  fines  shall  not  be  im- 
posed; nor  shall  cruel  and  unusual  pun- 
ishments be  inflicted.  Persons  arrested  or 
imprisoned  shall  not  be  treated  with  un- 
necessary  rigor. 

Sec.  10.  In  capital  cases  the  right  of 
trial  by  jury  shall  remain  inviolate.  In 
courts  of  general  jurisdiction,  except  in 
capital  cases,  a  jury  shall  consist  of  eight 
jurors.  In  courts  of  inferior  jurisdiction 
a  jury  shall  consist  of  four  jurors.  In 
criminal  cases  the  verdict  shall  be  unani- 
mous. In  civil  cases  three-fourths  of  the 
jurors  may  find  a  verdict.  A  jury  in  civil 
cases  shall  be  waived  unless  demanded. 

Sec.  IL  All  courts  shall  be  open,  and 
every  person,  for  an  injury  dome  to  him  in 
his  person,  property,  or  reputation,  shall 
have  remedy  by  due  course  of  law,  which 
shall  be  administered  without  denial  or 
unnecessary  delay:  and  no  person  shall 
be  barred  from  prosecuting  or  defending 
before  any  tribunal  in  this  State,  by 
himself  or  counsel,  any  civil  cause  to 
which  he  is  a  party. 

Sec.  12.  In  criminal  prosecutions  the  ac- 
cused shall  have  the  right  to  appear  and 
defend  in  person  and  by  counsel,   to  de- 


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THE   STATE   OF   UTAH. 


mand  the  nature  and  cause  of  the  accu- 
sation ag-alnst  nim,  to  have  a  copy  thereof, 
to  testify  in  his  own  behalf,  to  be  con- 
fronted by  the  witnesses  against  him,  to 
have  compulsory  process  to  compel  the 
attendance  of  witnesses  in  his  own  be- 
half, to  have  a  speedy  public  trial  by  an 
impartial  jury  of  the  county  or  district 
in  which  the  offense  is  alleged  to  have 
been  committed,  and  the  right  to  appeal 
in  all  cases.  In  no  instance  shall  any 
accused  person,  before  final  judgment,  be 
compelled  to  advance  money  or  fees  to 
secure  the  rights  herein  guaranteed.  The 
accused  shall  not  be  compelled  to  grive  evi- 
dence against  himself;  a  wife  shall  not 
be  compelled  to  testify  against  her  hus- 
band, nor  a  husband  against  his  wife, 
nor  shall  any  person  be  twice  put  in 
jeopardy  for  the  same  offense. 

Sec.  13.  Offenses  herstofore  required  to 
be  prosecuted  by  indictment  shall  be  pros- 
ecuted by  information  after  examination 
and  commitment  by  a  magistrate,  unless 
the  examination  be  waived  by  the  ac- 
cused with  the  consent  of  the  state,  or 
by  indictment,  with  or  without  such  ex- 
amination and  commitment.  The  grand 
jury  shall  consist  of  seven  persons,  five 
of  whom  must  concur  to  find  an  indict- 
ment; but  no  grand  jury  shall  be  drawn 
or  summoned  unless,  in  the  opinion  of  the 
judge  of  the  district,  public  interest  de- 
mands it. 

Sec.  14.  The  right  of  the  people  to  be 
secure  in  their  persons,  houses,  papers, 
and  effects  against  unreasonable  searches 
and  seizures  shall  not  be  violated;  and  no 
warrant  shall  issue  but  upon  probable 
cause  supported  by  oath  or  affirmation, 
particularly  describing  the  place  to  be 
searched  and  the  person  or  thing  to  be 
seized. 

Sec.  15.  No  law  shall  be  passed  to 
abridge  or  restrain  the  freedom  of  speech 
or  of  the  press.  In  all  criminal  prosecu- 
tions for  libel  the  truth  may  be  given  in 
evidence  to  the  jury;  and  if  it  shall  ap- 
pear to  the  jury  that  the  matter  charged 
as  libelous  is  true,  and  was  published 
with  good  motives  ,and  for  justifiable 
ends,  the  party  shall  be  acquitted,  and 
the  jury  shall  have  the  right  to  deter- 
mine the  law  and  the  fact. 

Sec.  16.  There  shall  be  no  imprisonment 
for  debt  except  in  cases  of  absconding 
debtors. 

Sec.  17.  All  elections  shall  be  free,  and 
no  power,  civil  or  military,  shall  at  any 
time  interfere  to  prevent  the  free  exer- 
cise of  the  right  of  suffrage.  Soldiers  In 
time  of  war  may  vote  at  their  post  of 
duty,  in  or  out  of  the  State,  under  regula- 
tions to  be  prescribed  by  law. 

Sec.  18.  No  bill  of  attainder,  ex  post 
facto  law,  or  law  impairing  the  obligation 
of  contracts,  shall  be  passed. 

Sec.  19    Treason  against  the  State  shall 


consist  only  in  levying  war  against  it, 
or  in  adhering  to  its  enemies,  or  in  giving 
them  aid  and  comfort.  No  person  shall 
be  convicted  of  treason  unless  on  the  tes- 
timony of  two  witnesses  to  the  same 
overt  act. 

Sec.  20.  The  military  shall  be  in  strict 
subordination  to  the  civil  power,  and  no 
soldier  in  time  of  peace  shall  be  quar- 
tered in  any  house  without  the  consent 
of  the  owner;  nor  in  time  of  war,  except 
in  a  manner  to  be  prescribed  by  law. 

Sec.  21.  Neither  slavery  nor  involuntary 
servitude,  except  as  a  punishment  for 
crime,  whereof  the  party  shall  have  been 
duly  convicted,  shall  exist  within  this 
State. 

Sec.  22.  Private  property  shall  not  be 
taken  or  damaged  for  public  use  without 
just  compensation. 

Sec.  23.  No  law  shall  be  passed  granting 
irrevocably  any  franchise,  privilege,  or 
immunity. 

Sec.  24.  All  laws  of  a  general  nature 
shall  have  uniform  operation. 

Sec.  25.  This  e»^umeration  of  rights  shall 
not  be  construed  to  impair  or  deny  others 
retained  by  the  people. 

Sec.  26.  The  provisions  of  this  constitu- 
tion are  mandatory  and  prohibitory,  un- 
less by  express  words  they  are  declared 
to  be  otherwise. 

Sec.  27.  Frequent  recurrence  to  funda- 
mental principles  is  essential  to  the  secu- 
rity of  individual  rights  and  the  perpetu- 
ity of  free  government. 

ARTICLE   II. 
State   Boundaries, 

Section  1.  TTie  boundaries  of  the  State 
of  Utah  shall  be  as  follows: 

Beginning  at  a  point  formed  by  the  in- 
tersection of  the  thirty-second  degree  of 
longitude  west  from  Washington  with  the 
thirty-seventhi  degree  of  north  latitude; 
thence  due  west  along  said  thirty-seventh 
degree  of  north  latitude  to  the  intersec- 
tion of  the  same  with  the  thirty-seventh, 
degree  of  longitude  west  from  Washing- 
ton; thence  due  north  along  said  thirty- 
seventh  degree  of  west  longitude  to  the 
intersection  of  the  same  with  the  forty- 
second  degree  of  north  latitude;  thence 
due  east  along  said  forty-second  degree 
of  north  latitude  to  the  intersection  of 
the  same  with  the  thirty-fourth  degree 
of  longitude  west  from  Washington; 
thence  due  south  along  the  said  thirty- 
fourth  degree  of  west  longitude  to  the 
intersection  of  the  same  with  the  forty- 
first  degree  of  north  latitude;  thence  due 
east  along  said  forty-first  degree  of  north 
latitude  to  the  intersection  of  the  same 
with  the  thirty-second  degree  of  longi- 
tude west  from  Washington;  thence  due 
south  along  said  thirty-second  degree  of 
west  longitude  to  the  place  of  beginning. 


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ARTICLE   III. 
Ordinance. 

The  following  ordinance  shall  be  irre- 
vocable without  the  consent  of  the  United 
States  and  the  people,  of  this  State. 

First— Perfect  toleration  of  religious 
sentiment  is  guaranteed.  No  inhabitant 
of  this  State  shall  ever  be  molested  in 
person  or  property  on  account  of  his  or 
her  mode  of  religious  worship;  but  polyg- 
amous or  plural  marriages  are  forever 
prohibited. 

Second— The  people  inhabiting  this  State 
do  affirm  and  declare  that  they  forever 
disclaim  all  right  and  title  to  the  unap- 
propriated public  lands  lying  within  the 
boundaries  hereof,  and  to  all  lands  lying 
within  said  limits  owned  or  held  by  any- 
Indian  or  Indian  tribes,  and  that  until 
the  title  thereto'  shall  have  been  extin- 
guished by  the  United  States  the  same 
shall  be  and  remain  subject  to  the  dispo- 
sition of  the  United  States,  and  said  In- 
dian lands  shall  remain  under  the  abso- 
lute jurisdiction  and  control  of  the  Con- 
gress of  the  United  States.  The  lands 
belonging  to  citizens  of  the  United  States 
residing  without  this  State  shall  never  be 
taxed  at  a  higher  rate  than  the  lands  be- 
longing to  residents  of  this  State;  nor 
shall  taxes  be  imposed  by  this  State  on 
lands  or  property  herein  belonging  to  or 
which  may  hereafter  be  purchased  by 
the  United  States  or  reserved  for  its  use; 
but  nothing  in  this  ordinance  shall  pre- 
clude this  State  from  taxing,  as  other 
lands  are  taxed,  any  lands  owned  or  held 
by  any  Indian  who  has  severed  his  tribal 
relations  and  has  obtained  from  the 
United  States  or  from  any  person,  by 
patent  or  grant,  a  title  thereto,  save  and 
except  such  lands  as  have  been  or  may 
be  granted  to  any  Indian  or  Indians  un- 
der any  act  of  Congress  containing  a  pro- 
vision exempting  the  land  thus  granted 
from  taxation,  which  last-mentioned 
lands  shall  be  exempt  from  taxation  so 
long,  and  to  such  extent,  as  is  or  may 
be  provided  in  the  act  of  Congress  grant- 
ing the  same. 

Third— All  debts  and  liabilities  of  the 
Territory  of  Utah,  incurred  by  authority 
of  the  legislative  assembly  thereof,  are 
hereby  assumed  and  shall  be  paid  by  this 
State. 

Fourtn— The  legislature  shall  make  laws 
for  the  establishment  and  maintenance  of 
a  system  of  public  schools,  which  shall  be 
open  to  an  the  children  of  the  State  and 
be  free  from  sectarian  control. 

ARTICLE   IV. 

Elections    and    Right    of    Suffrage. 

Section  1.  The  rights  of  citizens  of  the 
State    of    Utah    to    vote    and    hold    office 


shall  not  be  denied  or  abridged  on  ac- 
count of  sex.  Both  male  and  female  citi- 
zens of  this  State  shall  enjoy  equally  all 
civil,  political,  and  religious  rights  and 
privileges. 

Sec.  2.  Every  citizen  of  the  United 
States  of  the  age  of  21  years  and  upward, 
who  shall  have  been  a  citizen  for  ninety 
days,  and  shall  have  resided  in  the  State 
or  Territory  one  year,  in  the  county  four 
months,  and  in  the  precmct  sixty  days 
next  preceding  any  election,  shall  be  en- 
titled to  vote  at  such  election  except  as 
herein  otherwise  provided. 

Sec.  3.  In  all  cases  except  those  of  trea- 
son, felony,  or  breach  of  the  peace,  elec- 
tors shall  be  privileged  from  arrest  on 
the  days  of  election,  during  their  attend- 
ance at  elections,  and  going  to  and  re- 
turning therefrom. 

Sec.  4.  No  elector  shall  be  obliged-  to 
perform  militia  duty  on  the  day  of  elec- 
tion except  in  time  of  war  or  public 
danger. 

Sec.  5.  No  person  shall  be  deemed  a 
qualified  elector  of  this  State  unless  such 
person  be  a  citizen  of  the  United  States. 

Sec.  6.  No  idiot,  insane  person,  or  per- 
son convicted  of  treason  or  crime  against 
the  elective  franchise,  unless  restored  to 
civil  rights,  shall  be  permitted  to  vote  at 
any  election  or  be  eligible  to  hold  office  in 
this  State. 

Sec.  7.  Except  in  elections  levying  a 
special  tax  or  creating  indebtedness,  no 
property  qualification  shall  be  required 
for  any  person   to  vote  or  hold   office. 

Sec.  8.  All  elections  shall  be  by  secret 
ballot.  Nothing  in  this  section  shall  be 
construed  to  prevent  the  use  of  any  ma- 
chine or  mechanical  contrivance  for  the 
purpose  of  receiving  and  registering  the 
votes  cast  at  any  election:  Provided, 
That  secrecy  in  voting  be  preserved. 

Sec.  9.  All  general  elections,  except  for 
municipal  and  school  officers,  shall  be 
held  on  the  Tuesday  next  following  the 
first  Monday  in  Novemiber  of  the  year  in 
which  the  election  is  held.  Special  elec- 
tions may  be  held  as  provided  by  law. 
The  terms  of  all  officers  elected  at  any 
general  election  shall  commence  on  the 
first  Monday  in  January  next  following  the 
date  of  their  election.  Municipal  and 
school  officers  shall  be  elected  at  such 
time  as  may  be  provided  by  law  . 

Sec.  10.  All  officers  made  elective  or  ap- 
pointive by  this  constitution  or  by  the 
laws  made  in  pursuance  thereof,  before 
entering  upon  the  duties  of  their  respec- 
tive offices,  shall  take  and  subscribe  the 
following  oath  or  affirmation:  "I  do  sol- 
emnly swear  (or  affirm)  that  I  will  sup- 
port, obey,  and  defend  the  Constitution 
of  the  United  States  and  the  constitution 
of  this  State,  and  that  I  will  discharge 
the  duties   of  my  office  with   fidelity." 


FRANK  J.  CANNON,  UNITED    STATES    SENATOR. 


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ARTICLE    V. 
Distribution   of  Powers. 

Section  1.  The  powers  of  the  govern- 
ment  of  the  State  of  Utah  shall  be  divided 
into  three  distinct  departments,  the  legis- 
lative, the  executive,  and  the  judicial; 
and  no  person  charged  with  the  exercise 
of  powers  properly  belonging  to  one  of 
these  departments  shall  exercise  any 
functions  appertaining  to  either  of  the 
others,  except  in  the  cases  herein  ex- 
pressly directed   or  permitted. 

ARTICLE  VI. 

Legislative   Department. 

Section  1.  The  legislative  power  of  this 
state  shall  be  vested  in  a  senate  and 
house  of  representatives,  which  shall  be 
designated  the  legislature  of  the  State 
of  Utah. 

Sec.  2.  Regular  sessions  of  the  legisla- 
ture shall  be  held  biennially  at  the  seat 
of  the  government,  and,  except  the  first 
session  thereof,  shall  commence  on  the 
second  Monday  in  January  next  after  the 
election  of  members  of  the  house  of  rep- 
resentatives. 

Sec.  3.  The  members  of  the  house  of 
representatives,  after  the  first  election, 
shall  be  chosen  by  the  qualified  electors  of 
the  respective  representative  districts  on 
the  first  Tuesday  after  the  first  Monday 
in  November,  1896,  and  biennially  there- 
after. Their  terms  of  ofl^ce  shall  be  two 
years  from  the  first  day  of  January  next 
after  their  election. 

Sec.  4.  The  senators  shall  be  chosen  by 
the  qualified  electors  of  the  respective 
senatorial  districts  at  the  same  tim'es  and 
places  as  members  of  the  house  of  repre- 
sentatives, and  their  terms  of  office  shall 
be  four  years  from  the  first  day  of  Janu- 
ary next  after  their  election:  Provided, 
That  the  senators  elected  in  1896  shall  be 
divided  by  lot  into  two  classes  as  nearly 
equal  as  may  be;  seats  of  senators  of  the 
first  class  shall  be  vacated  at  the  expira- 
tion of  two  years,  those  of  the  second 
class  at  the  expiration  of  four  years:  so 
that  one-half,  as  near  as  possible,  shall 
be  chosen  biennially  thereafter.  In  case 
of  increase  in  the  number  of  senators, 
they  shall  be  annexed  by  lot  to  one  or 
the  other  of  the  two  classes,  so  as  to  keep 
them  as  nearly  equal  as  practicable. 

Sec.  5.  No  person  shall  be  eligible  to  the 
office  of  senator  or  representative  who  is 
not  a  citizen  of  the  United  States,  twen- 
ty-five years  of  age,  a  qualified  voter  in 
the  district  from  which  he  is  chosen,  a 
resident  for  three  years  of  the  state,  and 
for  one  year  of  the  district  from  which 
he  is  elected. 

Sec.  6.  No  person  holding  any  public 
office   of   profit   or   trust   under   authority 


of  the  United  States  or  of  this  State  shall 
be  a  member  of  the  legislature:  Provided, 
That  appointments  in  the  State  militia 
and  the  officers  of  notary  public,  justice 
of  the  peace,  United  States  commissioner, 
and  postmaster  of  the  fourth  class  shall 
not,  within  the  meaning  of  this  section, 
be  considered  offices  of  profit  or  trust. 

Sec.  7.  No  member  of  the  legislature, 
during  the  term  for  which  he  was  elected, 
shall  be  appointed  or  elected  to  any  civil 
office  of  profit  under  this  State  which 
shall  have  been  created,  or  the  emolu- 
ments of  which  shall  have  been  increased 
during  the  term  for  which  he  was  elected. 

Sec.  8.  Members  of  the  legislature,  in 
all  cases  except  treason,  felony,  or  breach 
of  the  peace,  shall  be  privileged  from  ar- 
rest during  each  session  of  the  legisla- 
ture, from  fifteen  days  next  preceding 
each  session,  and  in  returning  therefrom; 
and  for  words  used  in  any  speech  or  de- 
bate in  either  house  they  shall  not  be 
questioned  in  any  other  place. 

Sec.  9.  The  members  of  the  legislature 
shall  receive  such  per  diem  and  mileage 
as  the  legislature  may  provide,  not  ex- 
ceeding four  dollars  per  day  and  ten  cents 
per  mile  for  the  distance  necessarily  trav- 
eled going  to  and  returning  from  the 
place  of  meeting  on  the  most  usual  route, 
and  they  shall  receive  no  other  pay  or 
-^^jyerquisite. 
^^ec.  10,  Each  house  shall  be  the  judge 
of  the  election  and  qualifications  of  its 
members,  and  may  punish  them  for  dis- 
orderly conduct,  and,  with  the  concur- 
rence of  two-thirds  of  all  the  members 
elected,  expel  a  member  for  cause. 

Sec.  11.  A  majority  of  the  members  of 
each  house  shall  constitute  a  quorum  to 
transact  business,  but  a  smaller  number 
may  adjourn  from  day  to  day,  and  may 
compel  the  attendance  of  absent  mem- 
bers in  such  manner  and  under  such  pen- 
alties as  each  house  may  prescribe. 

Sec.  12.   Each  house  shall  determine  the 
rules    of   its   proceedings,    and    choose  its 
^  own  officers  and  employees. 

"^ec.  13.  The  governor  shall  issue  writs 
of  election  to  fill  vacancies  that  may  oc- 
cur in  either  house  of  the  legislature. 

Sec.  14.  Each  house  shall  keep  a  journal 
of  its  proceedings,  which,  except  in  case 
of  executive  sessions,  shall  be  published, 
and  the  yeas  and  nays  on  any  question, 
at  the  request  of  five  members  of  such 
house,  shall  be  entered  upon  the  journal. 

Sec.  15.  All  sessions  of  the  legislature, 
except  those  of  the  senate  while  sitting 
in  executive  session,  shall  be  public;  and 
neither  house,  without  the  consent  of  the 
other,  shall  adjourn  for  more  than  three 
days,  nor  to  any  other  place  than  that  in 
which  it  may  be  holding  session. 

Sec.  16.  No  regular  session  of  the  legis- 
lature   (except    the    first,    which    may    sit 


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ninety  days)  shall  exceed  sixty  days,  ex- 
cept in  cases  of  impeachment.  No  spe- 
cial session  shall  exceed  thirty  days,  and 
in  such  special  session,  or  when  a  regular 
session  of  the  legislature  trying  cases  of 
Impeachment  exceeds  sixty  days,  the 
members  shall  receive  for  compensation 
only  the  usual  per  diem  and  mileage. 
-—Sec.  17.  The  house  of  representatives 
shall  have  the  sole  power  of  impeach- 
ment, but  in  order  to  impeach  two-thirds 
of  all  the  members  elected  must  vote 
therefor. 
"^•»^ec.  18.  All  impeachments  shall  be  tried 
by  the  senate,  and  senators,  when  sitting 
for  that  purpose,  shall  take  oath  or  make 
affirmation  to  do  justice  according  to  the 
law  and  the  evidence.  When  the  gov- 
ernor is  on  trial  the  chief  justice  of  the 
supreme  court  shall  preside.  No  person 
shall  be  convicted  without  the  concur- 
rence of  two-thirds  of  the  senators 
elected. 

Sec.  19.  The  governor  and  other  State 
and  judicial  officers,  except  justices  of 
the  peace,  shall  be  liable  to  impeachment 
for  high  crimes,  misdemeanors,  or  mal- 
feasance m  office;  but  judgment  in  such 
cases  shall  extend  only  to  removal  from 
office  and  disqualification  to  hold  any 
office  of  honor,  trust,  or  profit  in  the 
State.  The  party,  whether  convicted  or 
acquitted,  shall,  navertheless,  be  liable  to 
prosecution,  trial,  and  punishment  ac- 
cording to  law. 

Sec,  20.  No  person  shall  be  tried  on  im- 
peachment unless  he  shall  have  been 
served  with  a  copy  of  the  articles  thereof 
at  least  ten  days  before  the  trial,  and 
after  such  service  he  shall  not  exercise 
the  duties  of  his  office  until  he  shall  have 
been  acquitted. 

Sec.  21.  All  officers  not  liable  to  im- 
peachment shall  be  removed  for  any  of 
the  offenses  specified  in  this  article,  in 
such  manner  as  may  be  provided  by  law. 

Sec.  22.  The  enacting  clause  of  every 
law  shall  be:  "Be  it  enacted  by  the  leg- 
islature of  the  State  of  Utah."  and  no 
bill  or  joint  resolution  shall  be  passed 
except  with  the  assent  of  a  majority  of  all 
the  members  elected  to  each  house  of  the 
legislature,  and  after  it  has  been  read 
three  times.  The  vote  upon  the  final  pas- 
sage of  all  bills  shall  be  by  yeas  and 
nays;  and  no  law  shall  be  revised  or 
amended  by  reference  to  its  title  only; 
but  the  act  as  revised,  or  section  as 
amended,  shall  be  re-enacted  and  pub- 
lished  at  length. 

Sec.  23.  Except  general  appropriation 
bills,  and  bills  for  the  codification  and 
general  revision  of  laws,  no  bill  shall  be 
passed  containing  more  than  one  subject, 
which  shall  be  clearly  expressed  in  its 
title. 

Sec.  24.  The  presiding  officer  of  each 
house,  in  the  presence  of  the  house  over 


which  he  presides,  shall  sign  all  bills  and 
joint  resolutions  passed  by  the  legisla- 
ture, after  their  titles  have  been  publicly 
read  immediately  before  signing,  and  the 
fact  of  such  signing  shall  be  entered  upon 
the  journal. 

Sec.  25.  All  acts  shall  be  officially  pub- 
lished, and  no  act  shall  take  effect  until 
so  published,  nor  until  sixty  days  after 
the  adjournment  of  the  session  at  which 
it  passed,  unless  the  legislature  by  vote 
of  two-thirds  of  all  the  members  elected 
to  each  house  shall  otherwise,  direct. 

Sec.  26.  The  legislature  is  prohibited 
from  enacting  any  private  or  special  laws 
in  the  following  cases: 
First— Granting  divorce. 
Second— Changing  the  names  of  persons 
or  places,  or  constituting  one  person  the 
heir  at  law  of  another. 

Third— Locating  or  changing  county 
seats. 

Fourth— Regulating  the  jurisdiction  and 
duties   of  justices  of  the  peace 

Fifth— Punishing  crimes  arid  misde- 
meanors. 

Sixth— Regulating  the  practice  of  courts 
of  justice. 

Seventh— Providing     for     a     change     of 
venue  in  civil  or  criminal  actions. 
Eighth^Assessing  and  collecting  taxes. 
Ninth— Regulating      the      interest        on 
money. 

Tenth— Changing  the  law  of  descent  or 
succession. 

Eleventh— Regulating  county  and  town- 
ship affairs. 

Twelfth— Incorporating  cities,  towns,  or 
villages;  changing  or  amending  the  char- 
ter of  any  city,  town  or  village;  laying 
out,  opening,  vacating,  or  altering  town 
plats,  highways,  streets,  wards,  alleys, 
or  public  grounds. 

Thirteenth— Providing  for  sale  or  mort- 
gage of  real  estate  belonging  to  minors 
or  others  under  disability. 

Fourteenth— Authorizing  persons  to 
keep  ferries  across  streams  within  the 
State. 

Fifteenth— Remitting  fines,  penalties,  or 
forfeitures. 

Sixteenth— Granting  to  an  individual, 
association  or  corporation  any  privilege, 
immunity  or  franchise. 

Seventeenth — Providing  for  the  manage- 
ment of  common  schools. 

Eighteenth— Creating,  increasing  or  de- 
creasing fees,  percentages  or  allowances 
of  public  officers  during  the  term  for 
which  said  officers  are  elected  or  appoint- 
ed. 

The  legislature  may  repeal  any  existing 
special  law  relating  to  the  foregoing  sub- 
divisions. 

In  all  cases  where  a  general  law  can 
be  applicable  no  special  law  shall  be  en- 
acted. 


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Nothing-  in  this  section  shall  be  con- 
strued to  deny  or  restrict  the  power  of 
the  leg-islature  to  establish  and  regulate 
the  compensation  and  fees  of  county  and 
township  officers;  to  establish  and  regu- 
late the  rates  of  freight,  passage,  toll, 
and  charges  of  railroads,  toll  roads,  ditch, 
flume  and  tunnel  companies  incorporated 
under  the  laws  of  the  State  or  doing  busi- 
ness  therein. 

Sec.  27.  The  legislature  shall  have  no 
power  to  release  or  extinguish,  in  whole 
or  in  part,  the  indebtedness,  liability,  or 
obligation  of  any  corporation  or  person  tO' 
the  State,  or  to  any  municipal  corpora- 
tion  therein. 

Sec.  28.  The  legislature  shall  not  au- 
thorize any  game  of  chance,  lottery,  or 
gift  enterprise  under  any  pretense  or  for 
any  purpose. 

Sec.    29.  The   legislature   shall   not   dele- 


Monday  in  Januiary,  A.  D.  1901.  The  offi- 
cers of  the  executive  department,  during 
their  terms  of  office,  shall  reside  at;  the 
seat  of  government,  where  they  shall 
keep  the  public  records,  books  and  papers. 
They  shall  perform  such  duties  as  are 
prescribed  by  this  constitution  and  aa 
may  be  prescribed  by  law. 
^Sec.  2.  The  officers  provided  for  in  sec- 
tion one  oif  this  article  shall  be  elected 
by  the  qualified  electors  of  the  State  at 
the  time  and  place  of  voting  for  members 
of  the  legislature,  and  the  persons  re- 
spectively having  the  highest  number  of 
votes  caist  for  the  office  voted  for  shall 
be  elected;  but  if  two  or  more  shall  have 
an  equal  and  highest  number  of  votes 
for  any  one  or  said  offices,  the  two  houses 
of  the  legislature,  at  its  next  regular  ses- 
sion, shall  elect  forthwith  by  joint  ballot 
one  of  such  persons  for  said"  office. 


gate   to   any    special  commission,    private   ~^"~~Sec.  3.  No  person  shall  be  eligible  to  the 


corporation,  or  association  any  power  to 
make,  supervise,  or  interfere  with  any 
municipal  improvement,  money,  property, 
or  effects,  whether  held  in  trust  or  other- 
wise, to  levy  taxes,  to  select  a  capitol 
site,  or  to  perform  any  municipal  func- 
tions, ili  * 

Sec.  30.  The  legislature  shall  have  no 
power  to  grant,  or  authorize  any  county 
or  municipal  authority  to  grant,  any  ex- 
tra compensation,  fee,  or  allowance,  to 
any  public  officer,  agent,  servant,  or  con- 
tractor, after  service  has  been  rendered 
or  a  contract  has  been  entered  into  and 
performed  in  whole  or  in  part,  nor  pay 
or  authorize  the  payment  of  any  claim 
hereafter  created  against  the  State,  or 
any  county  or  municipality  of  the  State, 
under  any  agreemient  or  contract  made 
without  authority  of  law:  Provided,  That 
this  section  shall  not  apply  to  claims  in- 
curred by  public  officers  in  the  execution 
of  the  laws  of  the  State. 

Sec.  31.  The  legislature  shall  not  author- 
ize the  State,  or  any  county,  city,  town, 
township,  district,  or  other  political  sub- 
division of  the  State,  to  lend  its  credit  or 
subscribe  to  stock  or  bonds  in  aid  of  any 
railroad,  telegraph,  or  other  private  in- 
dlviaual  or  corporate  enterprise  or  under- 
taking. 

ARTICLE  VII. 

Executive. 

— -  Section  1.  The  executive  department 
shall  consist  of  governor,  secretary  of 
state,  State  auditor.  State  treasurer,  at- 
torney general,  and  superintendent  of 
public  instruction,  each  of  whom  shall 
hold  his  office  for  four  years  beginning  on 
the  first  Monday  of  January  next  after  his 
election,  except  that  the  terms  of  office 
of  those  electPd  at  the  first  .election  shall 
begin  when  the  State  shall  be  admitted 
into  the  Union,  and  shall  end  on  the  first 


office  of  governor  or  secretary  of  state 
unless  he  shall  have  attained  the  age  of 
thirty  years  at  the  time  of  his  election, 
nor  to  the  oflfice  of  attorney  general  un- 
less he  shall  have  attained  the  age  of 
twenty-five  years  at  the  time  of  his  elec- 
tion, and  have  been  admitted  to  practice 
in  the  supreme  court  of  the  Territory  or 
of  the  State  of  Utah,  nor  unless  he  shall 
be  in  good  standing  at  the  bar  at  the 
time  of  his  election.  No  person  shall  be 
eligible  to  any  of  the  offices  provided  for 
in  section  one  of  this  article  unless  at 
the  time  of  his  election  he  shall  be  a 
qualified  elector  and  shall  have  been  a 
resident  citizen  of  the  State  or  Territory 
for  five  years  next  preceding  his  election. 
The  State  auditor  and  State  treasurer 
shall  be  ineligible  to  election  as  their  own 
successors. 

Sec.  4.  The  governor  shall  be  com- 
mander in  chief  of  the  military  forces  of 
the  State,  except  when  they  shall  be 
called  into  the  service  of  the  United  States. 
He  shall  have  the  power  to  call  out  the 
militia  to  execute  the  laws,  to  suppress 
insurrection,  or  to  repel  invasion. 

Sec.  5.  The  governor  shall  see  that  the 
laws  are  faithfully  executed;  he  shall 
transact  all  executive  business  with  the 
officers  of  the  government,  civil  and  mil- 
itary, and  may  require  information  in 
writing  from  the  officers  of  the  executive 
department,  and  from  the  officers  and 
managers  of  State  institutions  upon  any 
subject  relating  to  the  condition,  manage- 
ment and  expenses  of  their  respective 
offices  and  institutions,  and  at  any  time 
when  the  legislative  assembly  is  not  in 
session  may,  if  he  deem  it  necessary,  ap- 
point a  committee  to  investigate  and  re- 
port to  him  upon  the  condition  of  any 
executive  office  or  State  institution.  He 
shall  communicate  by  message  the  condi- 
tion of  the  State  to  the  legislature  at 
every    regular    session,    and    recommena 


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such  measures  as  he  may  deem  expedi- 
ent. 

— Sec.  6.  On  extraordinary  occasions  the 
governor  may  convene  the  legislature  by 
proclamation,  in  which  shall  be  stated 
the  purpose  for  which  the  legislature  is 
to  be  convened,  and  it  shall  transact  no 
legislative  busines  except  that  for 
which  it  was  especially  convened,  or  such 
other  legislative  business  as  the  governor 
may  call  to  its  attention  while  in  session. 
The  legislature,  however,  may  provide 
for  the  expenses  of  the  session  and  other 
matters  incidental  thereto.  The  governor 
may  also  by  proclamation  convene  the 
senate  in  extraordinary  session  for  the 
transaction  of  executive  business.  ^ 

-—Sec.  7.  Ini  case  of  a  disagreement  be- 
tween the  two  houses  of  the  legislature 
at  any  special  session  with  respect  to 
the  time  of  adjournment,  the  governor 
shall  have  power  to  adjourn  the  legisla- 
ture to  such  time  as  he  may  think  proper: 
Provided,  That  it  be  not  beyond  the  time 
fixed  for  the  convening  of  the  next  legis- 
lature. 

Sec.  8.  Every  bill  passed  by  the  legisla- 
ture, before  it  becomes  a  law,  shall  be 
presented  to  the  governor.  If  he  approve, 
he  shall  sign  it,  and  thereupon  it  shall 
become  a  law;  but  if  he  do  not  approve, 
he  shall  return  it  with  his  objections  to 
the  house  in  which  it  originated,  which 
house  shall  enter  the  objections  at  large 
upon  its  journal  and  proceed  to  reconsider 
the  bill.  If,  after  such  reconsideration,  it 
again  passes  both  houses  by  a  yea  and 
nay  vote  of  two-thirds  of  the  members 
elected  to  each  house,  it  shall  become  a 
law,  notwithstanding  the  governor's  ob- 
jections. If  any  bill  be  not  returned  with- 
in five  days  after  it  shall  have  been  pre- 
sented to  him  (Sunday  and  the  day  on 
which  he  received  it  excepted),  the  same 
shall  be  a  law  in  like  manner  as  if  he  had 
signed  it,  unless  the  legislature  by  its 
final  adjournment  prevent  such  return, 
in  which  case  it  shall  be  filed  with  his 
objections  in  the  office  of  the  secretary  of 
state  within  ten  days  after  such  adjourn- 
ment (Sundays  excepted)  or  become  a 
law.  If  any  bill  presented  to  the  gov- 
ernor contains  several  items  of  appropri- 
ations of  money,  he  may  object  to  one  or 
more  such  items  while  approving  other 
portions  of  the  bill.  In  such  case  he  shall 
append  to  the  bill  at  the  time  of  signing 
it  a  statement  of  the  item  or  items  which 
he  declines  to  approve,  together  with  his 
reasons  therefor,  and  such  item  or  items 
shall  not  take  effect  unless  passed  «over 
rnor's  objection  as  in  this  section 
provided. 

Sec.  9.  When  any  state  or  district  office 
shall  become  vacant  and  no  mode  is  pro- 
vided by  the  constitution  and  laws  for 
filling  such  vacancy,  the  governor  shall 
have  the  power  to  fill  the  same  by  grant- 


ing a  commission,  which  shall  expire  at 
the  next  election,  and  upon  qualification 
of  the  person  elected  to  such  office. 

"Sec.  10.  The  governor  shall  nominate, 
and  by  and  with  the  consent  of  the  sen- 
ate appoint,  all  State  and  district  officers 
whose  offices  are  established  by  this  con- 
stitution, or  which  may  be  created  by 
law,  and  whose  appointment  or  election 
is  not  otherwise  provided  for.  If,  during 
the  recess  of  the  senate,  a  vacancy  occur 
in  any  State  or  district  office,  the  gov- 
ernor shall  appoint  some  fit  person  to 
discharge  the  duties  thereof  until  the 
next  meeting  of  the  senate,  when  he  shall 
ixominate  some  person  to  fill  such  office. 
If  the  office  of  justice  of  the  supreme 
or  district  court,  secretary  of  state,  State 
auditor.  State  treasurer,  attorney  general, 
or  superintendent  of  public  instruction,  ba 
vacated  by  death,  resignation,  or  other- 
wise, it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  governor 
to  fill  the  same  by  appointment,  and  the 
appointee  shall  hold  his  ofhce  until  his 
successor  shall  be  elected  and  qualified, 
as  may  be  by  law  provided. 
^  Sec.  11.  In  case  of  the  death  of  the  gov- 
ernor, or  his  impeachment,  removal 
from  office,  inability  to  discharge  the 
duties  of  his  office,  resignation,  or 
absence  from  the  State,  the  powers 
and  duties  of  said  office  shall  de- 
volve upon,  the  secretary  of  state  until 
the  disability  shall  cease,  or  until  the 
next  general  election,  when  the  vacancy 
shall  be  filled  by  election.  If,  during  a 
vacancy  in  the  office  of  the  governor,  the 
secretary  of  state  resign,  die,  or  become 
incapable  of  performing  the  duties  of  the 
office,  or  be  displaced,  or  be  absent  from 
the  State,  the  president  pro  tempore  of 
the  senate  shall  act  as  governor  until  the 
vacancy  be  filled  or  the  disability  cease. 
While  performing  the  duties  of  the  gov- 
ernor as  in  this  section  provided,  the 
secreta.ry  of  state  or  the  president  pro 
tempore  of  the  senate,  as  the  case  may 
be,  except  in  cases  of  temporary  disabil- 
ity or  absence  from  the  State,  shall  be 
entitled  to  the  salary  and  emoluments  of 
the  governor. 

^^ec.  12.  Unless  otherwise  provided  by 
law,  the  governor,  justices  of  the  su- 
preme court  and  attorney  general  shall 
constitute  a  board  of  pardons,  a  majority 
of  whom,  including  the  governor,  upon 
such  conditions  and  with  such  limitations 
and  restrictions  as  they  deem  proper, 
may  remit  fines  and  forfeitures,  commute 
punishments,  and  grant  pardons  after 
convictions  in  all  cases  except  treason 
and  impeachments,  subject  to  such  regu- 
lations as  may  be  provided  by  law  rela- 
tive to  the  manner  of  applying  for  par- 
dons; but  no  fine  or  forfeiture  shall  be 
remitted  and  no  commutation  or  pardon 
granted  except  after  a  full  hearing  before 


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thB  board,  in  open  session,  after  previous 
notice  of  the  time  and  place  of  such  hear- 
ing has  been  given.  The  proceedings  and 
decisions  of  the  board,  with  the  reasons 
therefor  in  each  case,  together  with  the 
dissent  of  any  member  who  may  disagree, 
shall  be  reduced  to  writing  and  filed, 
with  all  the  papers  used  upon  the  hear- 
ing, in  the  office  of  the  secretary  of 
state. 

The  governor  shall  have  power  to  grai'^'u 
respites  or  reprieves  in  all  cases  of  con- 
victions for  offenses  against  the  State, 
except  treason  or  conviction  on  impeach- 
ment; but  such  respites  or  reprieves  shall 
not  extend  beyond  the  next  session  of 
the  board  of  pardons;  and  such  board,  at 
such  session,  shall  continue  or  determine 
suich  respite  or  reprieve,  or  they  may  com- 
mute the  punishment  or  pardon  the  of- 
fense as  herein  provided.  In  case  of  con- 
viction for  treason,  the  governor  shaJl 
have  the  power  to  suspend  execution  of 
the  sentence  until  the  case  shall  be  re- 
ported to  the  legislature  at  its  next  regu- 
lar session,  when  the  legislature  shall 
either  pardon  or  commute  the  sentence  or 
direct  its  execution;  he  shall  communi- 
cate to  the  legislature  at  each  regular 
session  each  case  of  remission  of  fine  or 
forfeiture,  reprieve,  commutation,  or  par- 
don granted  since  the  last  previous  re- 
port, stating  the  name  of  the  convict,  the 
crime  for  which  he  was  convicted,  the 
sentence  and  its  date,  the  date  of  remis- 
sion, commutation,  pardon,  or  reprieve, 
with  the  reasons  for  granting  the  same, 
and  the  objections,  if  any,  of  any  mem- 
ber of  the  board  rr^pr^r.  thpreto. 

Sec.  13.  Until  otherwise  provided  by  law, 
the  governor,  secretary  of  state,  and  at- 
torney general  shall  constitute  a  board 
of  State  prison  commissioners,  which 
board  shall  have  such  supervision  of  all 
matters  connected  with  the  State  prison 
as  may  be  provided  by  law.  They  shall 
also  constitute  a  board  of  examiners  with 
power  to  examine  all  claims  against  the 
State  except  salaries  or  compensation  of 
officers  fixed  by  law,  and  perform  such 
other  duties  as  may  be  prescribed  by  law, 
and  no  other  claim  against  the  State,  ex- 
cept for  salaries  and  compensation  of  offi- 
cers fixed  by  law,  shall  be  passed  upon  by 
the  legislature  without  having  been  con- 
sidered and  acted  upon  by  the  said  board 
of  examiners. 

Sec.  14.  Until  otherwise  provided  by  law, 
the  governor,  state  treasurer  and  state 
auditor  shall  constitute  a  board  O'f  insane 
asylum  commissioners.  Said  board  shall 
ha,ve  such  supervision  of  all  matters  con- 
nected with  the  State  insane  asylum  as 
may  be  provided  by  law. 

Sec.  15.  Until  otherwise  provided  by 
law,  the  governor,  attorney  general  and 
superintendent  of  public  instruction  shall 
constitute  a  board  of  reform  school  com- 


missioners.  Said  board  shall  have  such 
supervision  of  all  matters  connected  with 
the  State  reform  school  as  may  be  pro- 
vided by  law. 

Sec.  16.  The  secretary  of  state  shall 
keep  a  record  of  the  official  acts  of  the 
legislature  and  executive  department  of 
the  State,  and,  when  required,  shall  lay 
the  same  and  all  matters  relative  thereto 
before  either  branch  of  the  legislature, 
and  shall  perform  such  other  duties  as 
may    be    provided    by    law. 

Sec.  17.  The  auditor  shall  be  auditor  of 
public  accounts,  and  the  treasurer  shall 
be  the  custodian  of  public  moneys,  and 
each  shall  perform  such  other  duties  as 
may  be  provided  by  law. 

Sec.  18.  The  attorney  general  shall  be 
the  legal  adviser  of  the  State  officers,  and 
shall  perform  such  other  duties  as  may 
be  provided  by  law. 

Sec.  19.  The  superintendent  of  public  in- 
struction shall  perform  such  duties  as 
may  be  provided  by  law. 

Sec.  20.  The  govern  Dr,  secretary  of  state, 
auditor,  treasurer,  attorney  general,  su- 
perintendent of  public  instruction,  and 
such  other  State  and  district  officers  as 
may  be  provided  for  by  law,  shall  re- 
ceive for  their  services  quarterly  a  com- 
pensation as  fixed  by  law,  which  shall 
not  be  diminished  or  Increased  so  as  to 
affect  the  salary  of  any  officer  during  his 
term,  or  the  term  next  ensuing  after  the 
adoption  of  this  constitution,  unless  a  va- 
cancy occur,  in  which  case  the  successor 
of  the  former  incumbent  shall  receive 
only  such  salary  as  may  be  provided  by 
law  at  the  time  of  his  election  or  appoin- 
ment.  The  compensation  of  the  officers 
provided  for  by  this  article,  until  other- 
wise provided  by  law,  is  fixed  as  follows: 

Governor,  tw^o  thousand  dollars  per  an- 
num. 

Secretary  of  state,  two  thousand  dollars 
per  annum. 

State  auditor,  fifteen  hundred  dollars 
per  annum. 

State  treasurer,  one  thousand  dollars 
per  annum. 

Attorney  general,  fifteen  hundred  dol- 
lars  oer  annum. 

Superintendent  of  public  insitruction,  fif- 
teen hundred  dollars  per  annum. 

The  compensation  for  said  officers  as 
prescribed  in  this  section,  and  in  all  laws 
enacted  pursuant  to  this  constitution, 
shall  be  in  full  for  all  services  rendered 
bv  said  officers,  respectively,  in  any  offi- 
cial capacity  or  employment  during  their 
respective  terms  of  office.  No  such  offi- 
cer shall  receive  for  the  performance  of 
anv  official  dutv  any  fee  for  his  own  use, 
but  all  fees  fixed  by  law  for  the  perform- 
ance bv  either  of  them  of  any  official  duty 
shall  be  collected  in  advance  and  depos- 
ited with  the  State  treasurer  quarterly 
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may  provide  for  the  payment  of  actual 
and  necessary  expenses  of  said  officers 
while  traveling-  in  the  State  in  the  per- 
formance of  official  duty. 

Sec.  21.  All  grants  and  commissions 
shall  be  in  the  name  and  by  the  authority 
of  the  State  of  Utah,  sealed  with  the 
great  seal  of  the  State,  signed  by  the 
governor,  and  countersigned  by  the  sec- 
retary of  state. 

Sec.  22  There  shall  be  a  seal  of  the 
State,  which  shall  be  kept  by  the  secre- 
tary of  state,  and  used  by  him  officially. 
Said  seal  shall  be  called  "the  great  seal 
of  the  State  of  Utah."  The  present  seal 
of  the  Territory  of  Utah  shall  be  the 
seal  of  the  State  until  otherwise  provided 
by   law. 

Sec.  23.  No  person  while  holding  any 
office  under  the  United  States  government 
shall  hold  any  office  under  the  State  gov- 
ernment of  Utah,  and  the  governor  shall 
not  be  eligible  for  election  to  the  senate 
of  the  United  States  during  the  term  for 
which  he  shall  have  been  elected  gov- 
ernor. 

ARTICLE  VIII. 

Judicial  Department. 

Section  1.  The  judicial  power  of  the 
State  shall  be  vested  in  the  senate  sitting 
as  a  court  of  impeachment,  in  a  supreme 
court,  in  district  courts,  in  justices  of  the 
peace,  and  such  other  courts  inferior  to 
the  supreme  court  as  may  be  established 
by  law. 

Sec.  2.  Tlie  supreme  court  shall  consist 
of  three  judges;  but  after  the  year  A.  D. 
19a5  the  legislature  may  increase  the  num- 
ber thereof  to  five.  A  majority  of  the 
judges  constituting  the  court  shall  be 
necessary  to  form  a  quorum  or  render  a 
decision.  If  a  justice  of  the  supreme 
court  shall  be  disqualified  from  sitting  in 
a  cause  before  said  court  the  remaining 
judges  shall  call  a  district  judge  to  sit 
with  them  on  the  hearing  of  such  cause. 
Th/e  judges  of  the  supreme  court  shall  be 
elected  by  the  electors  of  the  State  at 
large.  The  term  of  office  of  the  judges 
of  the  supreme  court,  excepting  as  in  this 
article  otherwise  provided,  shall  be  six 
years.  The  judges  of  the  supreme  court, 
immediately  after  the  first  election  under 
this  constitution,  shall  be  selected  by  lot, 
so  that  one  shall  hold  office  for  the  term 
of  three  years,  one  for  the  termi  of  five 
years,  and  one  for  the  term  of  seven 
years.  The  lots  shall  be  drawn  by  the 
judges  of  the  supreme  court,  who,  for 
that  purpose,  shall  assemble  at  the  seat 
of  government;  and  they  shall  cause  the 
result  thereof  to  be  certified  by  the  sec- 
retary of  state,  and  filed  in  his  office. 
The  judge  having  the  shortest  term  to 
serve,  not  holding  his  office  by  appoint- 
ment or  election  to   fill  a  vacancy,   shall 


be  the  chief  justice  and  shall  preside  at 
all  terms  of  the  supreme  court,  and  in 
case  of  his  absence  the  judge  having,  in 
like  manner,  the  next  shortest  term  shall 
preside  in  his  stead. 

Sec.  3.  Every  judge  of  the  supreme 
court  shall  be  at  least  thirty  years  of 
age,  and  before  his  election  shall  be  a 
member  of  the  bar,  learned  in  the  law, 
and  a  resident  of  the  Territory  or  State 
of  Utah  for  five  years  next  preceding  his 
election. 

'  Sec.  4.  The  supreme  court  shall  have 
original  jurisdiction  tO'  issue  writs  of 
mandamus,  certiorari,  prohibition,  quo 
warranto  and  habeas  corpus.  Each  of  the 
justices  shall  have  power  to  issue  writs 
of  habeas  corpus,  to  any  part  of  the 
State,  upon  petition  by  or  on  behalf  of  any 
person  held  in  actual  custody,  and  may 
make  such  writs  returnable  before  him- 
self or  the  supreme  court,  or  before  any 
listrict  court  or  judge  thereof  in  the 
State.  In  other  cases  the  supreme  court 
shall  have  appellate  jurisdiction  only,  and 
power  LO  issue  writs  necessary  and  proper 
for  the  exercise  of  that  jurisdiction.  The 
supreme  court  shall  hold  at  least  three 
terms  every  year,  and  shall  sit  at  the 
capital  of  the  state. 

--Sec.  5.  The  State  shall  be  divided  intO' 
seven  judicial  districts,  for  each  of  which 
at  least  one,  and  not  exceeding  three, 
judges  shall  be  chosen  by  the  qualified 
electors  thereof.  The  term  of  office  of 
the  district  judges  shall  be  four  years, 
except  that  the  district  judges  elected  at 
the  first  election  shall  serve  until  the 
first  Monday  in  January,  A.  D.  1901,  and 
until  their  successors  shall  have  been 
qualified.  Until  otherwise  provided  by 
law,  a  district  court  at  the  county  seat 
of  each  county  shall  be  held  at  least  four 
times  a  year.  All  civil  and  criminal  dus- 
iness  arising  in  any  county  must  be  tried 
in  such  county,  unless  a  change  of  venue 
be  taken  in  such  cases  as  may  be  pro- 
vided by  law.  Each  judge  of  the  district 
court  shall  be  at  least  twenty-five  years 
of  age,  a  member  of  the  bar.  learned  in 
the  law. a  resident  of  the  Territory  or 
State  of  Utah  three  years  next  preceding 
his  election,  and  shall  reside  in  the  dis- 
trict for  which  he  shall  be  elected.  Any 
district  judge  may  hold  a  district  court 
in  any  county  at  the  request  of  the  judge 
of  the  district,  and  upon  a  request  of  the 
governor   it    shall   be    his  duty   to   do   so. 

— ^ny  cause  in  the  district  court  may  be 
tried  by  a  judge  pro  tempore,  who  must 
be  a  member  of  the  bar,  sworn  to  try  the 
cause,  and  agreed  upon  by  the  parties  or 
their  attorneys  of  record. 

-  —Sec.  6.  The  legislature  may  change  the 
limits  of  any  judicial  district,  or  increase 
or  decrease  the  number  of  districts,  or 
the  judges  thereof.     No  alteration  or  in- 


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crease  shall  have  the  effect  of  removing  a 
judge  from  office.  In  every  additional 
district  established  a  judge  shall  be  elect- 
ed by  the  electors  thereof,  and  his  term 
of  office  shall  continue  as  provided  in 
section  five  of  this  article. 

Sec.  7.  The  district  court  shall  have 
original  jurisdiction  in  all  matters  civil 
and  criminal  not  excepted  in  this  consti- 
tution and  not  prohibited  by  law,  appel- 
late jurisdiction  from  all  inferior  courts 
and  tribunals,  and  a  supervisory  control 
of  the  same.  The  district  courts  or  any 
judge  thereof  shall  have  power  to  issue 
writs  of  habeas  corpus,  mandamus,^  in- 
junction, quo  warranto,  certiorari,  prohi- 
bition, and  other  writs  necessary  to  carry 
into  effect  their  orders,  judgments,  and 
decrees,  and  to  give  them  a  general  con- 
trol over  inferior  courts  and  tribunals 
within  their  respective  jurisdictions. 

Sec.  8.  The  legislature  shall  determine 
the  number  of  justices  of  the  peace  to 
be  elected,  and  shall  fix  by  law  their  pow- 
ers, duties  and  compensation.  The  juris- 
diction of  justices  of  the  peace  shall  be 
as  now  provided  by  law,  but  the  legis- 
lature may  restrict  the  same, 
--^ec.  9.  From  all  final  judgments  of  the 
district  courts  there  shall  be  a  right  of 
appeal  to  the  supreme  court.  The  appeal 
shall  be  upon  the  record  made  in  the 
court  below,  and  under  such  regulations 
as  may  be  provided  by  law.  In  equity 
cases  the  appeal  may  be  on  questions  of 
both  law  and  fact;  in  cases  at  law  the 
appeal  shall  be  on  questions  of  law  alone. 
Appeals  shall  also  lie  from  the  final  or- 
ders and  decrees  of  the  court  in  the  ad- 
ministration of  decedent  estates,  and  in 
cases  of  guardianship,  as  shall  be  pro- 
vided by  law.  Appeals  shall  also  lie  fron^ 
the  final  judgment  of  justices  of  the 
peace  in  civil  and  criminal  cases  to  the 
district  courts  on  both  questions  of  law 
and  fact,  with  such  limitations  and  re- 
strictions as  shall  be  provided  by  law; 
and  the  decision  of  the  district  courts 
on  such  appeals  shall  be  final,  except  in 
cases  involving  the  validity  or  constitu- 
tionality of  a  statute. 

Sec.  10.  A  county  attorney  shall  be  elect- 
ed by  the  qualified  voters  of  each  county, 
whO'  shall  hold  his  office  for  a  term  of 
two  years.  The  powers  and  duties  of 
county  attorneys,  and  such  -other  attor- 
neys for  the  State  as  the  legislature  may 
provide,  shall  be  prescribed  by  law.  In 
all  cases  where  the  attorney  for  any 
county  or  for  the  State  fails  or  refuses  to 
attend  and  prosecute  according  to  law 
the  court  shall  have  power  to  appoint  an 
attorney  pro   tempore. 

— Sec.  11.  Judges  may  be  removed  from 
office  by  the  concurrent  vote  of  both 
houses  of  the  legislature,  each  voting 
separately:  but  two-thirds  of  the  mem- 
bers to  which  each  house  may  be  entitled 


must  concur  in  such  vote.  The  vote  shall 
be  determined  by  yeas  and  nays,  and  the 
names  of  the  members  voting  for  or 
against  a  judge,  together  with  the  cause 
or  causes  of  removal,  shall  be  entered  on 
the  journal  of  each  house.  The  judge 
against  whom  tho  house  may  be  about  to 
proceed  shall  receive  notice  thereof,  ac- 
companied with  a  copy  of  the  cause  al- 
leged for  his  removal,  at  least  ten  days 
before  the  day  on  which  either  house  of 
the  legislature  shall  act  thereon. 

Sec.  12.  The  judges  of  the  supreme  and 
district  courts  shall  receive  at  stated 
times  compensation  for  their  services, 
which  shall  not  be  increased  or  dimin- 
ished during  the  time  for  which  they  are 
elected. 

Sec.  13.  Except  by  consent  of  all  the 
parties,  no  judge  of  the  supreme  or  in- 
ferior courts  shall  preside  in  the  trial  of 
any  cause  where  either  of  the  parties 
shall  be  connected  with  him  by  affinity 
or  consanguinity  witnin  the  degree  of 
first  cousin,  or  in  which  he  may  have 
been  of  counsel,  or  in  the  trial  of  which  he 
may  have  presided  in  any  inferior  court. 

Sec.  14.  The  supreme  court  shall  appoint 
a  clerk  and  a  reporter  of  its  decisions,  who 
shall  hold  their  offices  during  the  pleas- 
ure of  the  court.  Until  otherwise  pro- 
vided, county  clerks  snail  be  ex-officio 
clerks  of  the  district  courts  in  and  for 
their  respective  counties,  and  shall  per- 
form such  other  duties  as  may  be  pro- 
vided  by  law. 

Sec.  15.  No  person  related  to  any  judge 
of  any  court  by  affinity  or  consanguinity 
within  the  degree  of  first  cousin  shall  be  . 
appointed  by  such,  court  or  judge  to  or 
employed  by  such  court  or  judge  in  any 
office  or  duty  in  any  court  of  which  such 
judge  may  be  a  member. 

Sec.  16.  Until  otherwise  provided  by 
law,  the  judicial  districts  of  the  State 
shall  be  constituted  as  follows: 

First  district— The  counties  of  Cache, 
Box   Elder  and  Rich. 

Second  district— The  counties  of  Weber, 
Morgan  and  Davis. 

Third  district — The  counties  of  Summit, 
Salt  Lake  and  Tooele,  in  which  there 
shall  be  elected  three  district  judges. 

Fourth  district— The  counties  of  Utah, 
Wasatch  and  Uinta. 

Fifth  district— The  counties  of  Juab, 
Millard,  Beaver,  Iron  and  Washington. 

Sixth  district— The  counties  of  Sevier, 
Piute,  Wayne,   Garfield  and  Kane. 

Seventh  district — The  counties  of  San- 
pete. Carbon,  Emery,  Grand  and  San 
Juan. 

Sec.  17.  The  supreme  and  district  courts 
shall  be  courts  of  record,  and  each  shall 

Sec.  18.  The  style  of  all  process  shall 
be   "The   State   of  Utah,"    and  all   prose- 


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cutions  shall  be  conducted  in  the  name 
and  by  the  authority  of  the  same. 

Sec.  19.  There  shall  be  but  one  form  of 
civil  action,  and  law  and  equity  may  be 
administered  in   the  same  action. 

Sec.  20.  Until  otherwise  provided  by 
law,  salaries  of  supreme  and  district 
court  judges  shall  be  three  thousand  dol- 
lars per  annum  and  mileage,  payable 
quarterly  out  of   the  State  treasury. 

Sec.  21,  Judges  of  the  supreme  court, 
district  court,  and  justices  of  the  peace 
shall  be  conservators  of  the  peace,  and 
may  hold  preliminary  examinations  in 
cases  of  felony. 

Sec.  22.  District  judges  may  at  any  time 
report  defects  and  omissions  in  the  law 
to  the  supreme  court,  and  the  supreme 
court,  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  De- 
cember of  each  year,  shall  report  in  writ- 
ing to  the  governor  any  seeming  defect 
or  omission  in  the  law. 

Sec.  23.  The  legislature  may  provide  for 
the  publication  of  decisions  and  opinions 
of  the  supreme  court,  but  all  decisions 
shall   be   free  to  publishers. 

Sec.  24.  The  terms  of  office  of  supreme 
and  district  judges  may  be  extended  by 
law,  but  such  extension  shall  not  affect 
the  term  for  which  any  judge  was  elect- 
ed- 

Sec.  25.  When  a  judgment  or  decree  is 
reversed,  modified  or  affirmed  by  the  su- 
preme court  the  reasons  therefor  shall 
be  stated  concisely  in  writing,  signed  by 
the  judges  concurring,  filed  in  the  office 
of  the  clerk  of  the  supreme  court,  and 
preserved  with  a  record  of  the  case. 
Any  judge  dissenting  therefrom  may  give 
the  reasons  of  his  dissent  in  writing  over 
his   signature. 

Sec.  26.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  court 
to  prepare  a  syllabus  of  all  the  points 
adjudicated  in  each  case,  which  shall  be 
concurred  in  by  a  majority  of  the  judges 
thereof,  and  it  shall  be  prefixed  to  the 
pul>lished  reports  of  the  case. 

Sec.  27.  Any  judicial  officer  who  shall 
absent  himself  from  the  State  or  district 
for  more  than  ninety  consecutive  days 
shall  be  deemed  to  have  forfeited  his 
office:  Provided,  That  in  case  of  extreme 
necessity  the  governor  may  extend  the 
leave  of  absence  to  such  time  as  the  ne- 
cessity therefor  shall  exist. 

ARTICLE   IX. 

Congressional  and  Legislative  Apportion- 
ment. 

Section  1.  One  representative  in  the 
Congress  of  the  United  States  shall  be 
elected  from  the  State  at  large  on  the 
Tuesday  next  after  the  first  Monday  in 
November,  A.  D.  1895,  and  thereafter  at 
such  times  and  places  and  in  such  man- 
ner as  may  be  prescribed  by  law.  When 
a   new   apportionment   shall   be  made  by 


Congress,  the  legislature  shall  divide  the 
State  into  congressional  districts  accord- 
ingly. 

Sec.  2.  The  legislature  shall  provide  by 
law  for  an  enumeration  of  the  inhabitants 
of  the  state  A.  D.  1905,  and  every  tenth 
year  thereafter,  and  at  the  session  next 
following  each  enumeration,  and  also  at 
the  session  next  following  an  enumera- 
tion made  by  the  authority  of  the  United 
States,  shall  revise  and  adjust  the  appor- 
tionment for  senators  and  representatives 
on  the  basis  of  such  enumeration,  accord- 
ing  to   ratios   to   be   fixed   by  law. 

Sec.  3.  The  senaite  shall  consist  of 
eighteen  members  and  the  house  of  rep- 
resentatives of  forty-five  members.  The 
legislature  may  increase  the  number  of 
senators  and  representatives,  but  the  sen- 
ators shall  never  exceed  thirty  in  num- 
ber, and  the  number  of  representatives 
shall  never  be  less  than  twice  nor  greater 
than  three  times  the  number  of  senators, 
conferred   by   Congress    upon    the   State. 

Sec.  4.  When  more  than  one  county 
shall  constitute  a  senatorial  district,  such 
counties  shall  be  contiguous,  and  no  coun- 
ty shall  be  divided  in  the  formation  of 
such  districts  unless  such  county  contains 
sufficient  population  within  itself  to  form 
two  or  more  districts,  nor  shall  a  part  of 
any  county  be  united  with  any  other 
county  in  forming  any  district. 

REPRESENTATIVE    DISTRICTS. 

Until  otherwise  provided  by  law,  repre- 
sentatives shall  be  apportioned  among 
the  several  counties  of  the  State  as  fol- 
lows: Provided,  That  in  any  future  ap- 
portionment made  by  the  legislature  each 
county  shall  be  entitled  to  at  least  one 
representative : 

The  county  of  Boxelder  shall  constitute 
the  first  representative  district,  and  be 
entitled   to   one   representative. 

The  county  of  Cache  shall  constitute 
the  second  representative  district,  and  be 
entitled  to  three  representatives. 

The  county  of  Rich  shall  constitute  the 
third  representative  district,  'and  be  en- 
titled  to   one   representative. 

The  county  of  Weber  shall  constitute 
the  fourth  representative  district,  and  be 
entitled    to    four    representatives. 

The  county  of  Morgan  shall  constitute 
the  fifth  representative  district,  and  be 
entitled   to  one  representative. 

TTie  county  of  Davis  shall  constitute  the 
sixth  representative  district,  and  be  en- 
titled to  one  representative. 

The  county  of  Tooele  shall  constitute 
the  seventh  representative  district,  and  be 
entitled    to   one    representative. 

The  county  of  Salt  Lake  shall  consti- 
tute the  eighth  representative  district, 
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The  county  of  Summit  shall  constitute 
the  ninth  representative  district,  and  be 
entitled    to   one    representative. 

The  county  of  Wasatch  shall  constitute 
the  tenth  representative  district,  and  be 
entitled  to  one  representative. 

The  county  of  Utah  shall  constitute  the 
eleventh  representative  district,  and  be 
entitled    to   four   representatives. 

The  county  of  Uinta  shall  constitute  the 
twelfth  representative  district,  and  be 
entitled    to   one    representative. 

The  county  of  Juab  shall  constitute  the 
thirteenth  representative  district,  and  be 
entitled  to  one  representative. 

The  county  of  Sanpete  shall  constitute 
the  fourteenth  representative  district,  and 
be   entitled   to  two   representatives. 

The  county  of  Carbon  shall  constitute 
the  fifteenth  representative  district,  and 
be  entitled  to  one  representative. 

The  county  of  Emery  shall  constitute 
the  sixteenth  representative  district,  and 
be   entitled   to  one   representative. 

The  county  of  Grand  shall  constitute 
the  seventeenth  representative  district, 
and  be  entitled  to  one  representative. 

The  county  of  Sevier  shall  constitute 
the  eig-hteenth  representative  district,  and 
be  entitled  tO'  one  representative. 

The  county  of  Millard  shall  constitute 
the  nineteenth  representative  district,  and 
be  entitled  to  one   representative. 

The  county  of  Beaver  shall  constitute 
the  twentieth  representative  district,  and 
be  entitled  to  one  representative. 

The  county  of  Piute  shall  constitute  the 
twenity-first  representative  district,  and 
be  entitled  to  one  representative. 

The  county  of  Wayne  shall  constitute 
the  twenty-second  representative  district, 
and  be  entitled  to  one  representative. 

The  county  of  Garfield  shall  constitute 
the  twenty-third  representative  district, 
and  be  entitled  to  one  representative. 

The  county  of  Iron  shall  constitute  the 
twenty-fouth  representative  district,  and 
be  entitled  to  one  representative. 

The  county  of  Washington  shall  con- 
stitute the  twenty-fifth  representative  dis- 
trict, and  be  entitled  to  one  representa- 
tive. 

The  county  of  Kane  shall  constitute  the 
twenty-sixth  representative  district,  and 
be   entitled  to   one  representative. 

The  county  of  San  Juan  shall  constitute 
the  twenty-seventh  representative  dis- 
trict, and  be  entitled  to  one  representa- 
tive, m 

SENATORIAL    DISTRICTS. 

Until  otherwise  provided  by  law,  the 
senatorial  districts  shall  be  constituted 
and  numbered  as  follows: 

The  counties  of  Boxelder  and  Tooele 
shall  constitute  the  first  district,  and  be 
entitled   to   one    senator. 


The  county  of  Cache  shall  constitute 
the  second  district,  and  be  entitled  to 
one  senator. 

The  counties  of  Rich,  Morgan,  and 
Davis  shall  constitute  the  third  district, 
and   be   entitled   to   one   senator. 

The  county  of  Weber  shall  constitute 
the  fourth  district,  and  be  entitled  to  two 
senators. 

The  counties  of  Summit  and  Wasatch 
shall  constitute  the  fifth  district,  and  be 
entitled    to    one    senator. 

The  county  of  Salt  Lake  shall  constitute 
the  sixth  district  and  be  entitled  to 
five  senators. 

The  county  of  Utah  shall  constitute  the 
seventh  district,  and  be  entitled  to  two 
senators. 

The  counties  of  Juab  and  Millard  shall 
constitute  the  eig^hth  district,  and  be  en- 
titled  to  one   senator. 

The  county  of  Sanpete  shall  constitute 
the  ninth  district,  and  be  entitled  to  one 
senator. 

The  counties  of  Sevier,  Wayne,  Piute 
and  Garfield  shall  constitute  the  tenth 
district,  and  be  entitled  to  one  senator. 

The  counties  of  Beaver,  Iron,  Washing- 
ton and  Kane  shall  constitute  the  elev- 
enth district,  and  be  entitled  to  ati«  sen- 
ator. 

The  counties  of  Emery,  Carbon,  Uinta, 
Grand  and  San  Juan  shall  constitute  the 
twelfth  district,  and  be  entitled  to  one 
senator. 

ARTICLE  X. 
Education. 

Section  1.  The  le^slature  shall  pro- 
vide for  the  establishment  and  mainten- 
ance of  a  uniform  system  of  public 
schools,  which  shall  be  open  tO'  all  the 
children  of  the  State  and  free  from  sec- 
tarian   control. 

Sec.  2.  The  public  school  system  shall 
include  kindergarten  schools;  common 
schools,  consisting  of  primary  and  gram- 
mar grades;  high  schools,  an  agricultural 
college,  a  university,  and  such  other 
schools  as  the  legislature  may  establish. 
The  common  school  shall  be  free.  The 
other  departments  of  the  system  shall  be 
supported  as  provided  by  law:  Provided, 
That  hig'h  schools  may  be  maintained 
free  in  all  cities  of  the  first  and  second 
class  now  constituting  school  districts, 
and  in  such  other  cities  and  districts  as 
may  be  designated  by  the  legislature. 
But  where  the  proportion  of  school  mon- 
eys apportioned  or  accruing  to  any  city 
or  district  shall  not  be  sufficient  to  main- 
tain all  the  free  schools  in  such  city 
or  district,  the  high  schools  shall  be 
supported  by  local  taxation. 

Sec.   3.     The   proceeds   of  all  lands   that 


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have  been  or  may  be  granted  by  the 
United  States  to  this  State  for  the  sup- 
port of  the  common  schools,  the  proceeds 
of  all  property  that  may  accrue  to  the 
State  by  escheat  or  forfeiture,  and  ail 
unclaimed  shares  and  dividends  of  any 
corporation  incorporated  under  the  laws 
of  this  State,  tlie  proceeds  of  the  sale 
of  timber,  minerals,  or  other  property 
from  school  and  State  lands  other  than 
those  granted  for  specific  purposes,  and 
the  five  per  centum  of  the  net  proceeds 
of  the  sales  of  public  lands  lying-  within 
the  State,  which  shall  be  sold  by  the 
United  States  subsequent  to  the  admis- 
sion of  this  State  into  the  Union,  shall 
be  and  remain  a  perpetual  fund,  to  be 
called  the  State  school  fund,  the  interest 
of  which  only,  together  with  such  other 
means  as  the  legislature  may  provide, 
shall  be  distributed  among  the  several 
school  districts  according  to  the  school 
population    residing    therein. 

Sec.  4.  The  location  and  establishment 
by  existing  laws  of  the  University  of 
Utah  and  Agricultural  College  are  hereby 
confirmed,  and  all  the  rights,  immunities, 
franchises,  and  endowments  heretofore 
granted  or  conferred  are  hereby  per- 
petuated unto  said  university  and  agri- 
cultural   college,    respectively. 

Sec.  5.  The  proceeds  of  the  sale  of 
lands  reserved  by  an  act  of  congress  ap- 
proved February  21,  1855,  for  the  estab- 
lishment of  the  University  of  Utah,  and 
of  all  the  lands  granted  by  an  act  of 
Congress  approved  July  16,  1894,  shall  con- 
stitute permanent  funds,  to  be  safely  in- 
vested and  held  by  the  State;  and  the 
income  thereof  shall  be  used  exclusively 
for  the  support  and  maintenance  of  the 
different  institutions  and.  colleges,  re- 
spectively, in  accordance  with  the  require- 
ments and  conditions  of  said  acts  of 
Congress. 

Sec.  6.  In  cities  of  the  first  and  second 
class  the  public  school  system  shall  be 
maintained  and  controlled  by  the  board 
of  education  of  such  cities,  separate  and 
apart  from  the  counties  in  which  said 
cities  are  located. 

Sec.  7.  All  public  school  funds  shall  be 
guaranteed  by  the  State  against  loss  or 
diversion. 

Sec.  8.  The  general  control  and  super- 
vision of  the  public  school  system  shall  be 
vested  in  a  State  board  of  education,  con- 
sisting of  the  superintendent  of  public 
instruction  and  such  other  persons  as  the 
legislature   may   provide. 

Sec.  9.  Neither  the  legislature  nor  the 
State  board  of  education  shall  have  power 
to  prescribe  text-books  to  be  used  in  the 
common   schools. 

Sec.  10.  Institutions  for  the  deaf  and 
dumb  and  for  the  blind  are  hereby  es- 
tablished.    All   property   belonging   to   the 


school  for  the  deaf  and  dumb,  heretofore 
connected  with  the  University  of  Utah, 
shall  be  transiferred  to  said  institution 
for  the  deaf  and  dumb.  All  the  proceeds 
of  the  lands  granted  by  the  United  States 
for  the  support  of  a  deaf  and  dumb  asy- 
lum and  for  an  institution  for  the  blind 
shall  be  a  perpetual  fund  for  the  main- 
tenance of  said  institutions.  It  shall  be: 
a  trust  fund,  the  principal  of  which  shall 
remain  inviolate,  guaranteed  by  the  State 
against  loss  or  diversion. 

Sec.  11.  The  metric  system  shall  be 
taught  in  the  public  schools  of  the  State. 

Sec.  12.  NeiLiier  religious  nor  partisan 
test  or  qualification  shall  be  required  of 
any  person  as  a  condition  of  admission, 
as  teacher  or  student,  into  any  public 
educational   institution   of   the   State. 

Sec.  13.  Neither  the  legislature  nor  any 
county,  city,  town,  school  district,  or 
other  public  coi-poration  shall  make  any 
appropriation  to  aid  in  the  support  of  any 
school,  seminary,  academy,  college,  uni- 
versity, or  other  institution  controlled 
in  whole  or  in  part  by  any  church,  sect, 
or   denomination    whatever. 

ARTICLE    XI. 
Counties,    Cities,    and   Towns. 

Section  1.  The  several  counties  of  the 
Territory  of  Utah  existing  at  the  time  of 
the  adoipition  of  this  constitution  are 
hereby  recognized  as  legal  subdivisions 
of  this  State,  and  the  precincts  and  school 
districts  now  existing  in  the  said  counties 
as  leg-al  subdivisions  thereof,  and  they 
shall  so  continue  until  changed  by  law 
in  pursuance  of  this  article. 

Sec.  2.  No  county  seat  shall  be  re- 
moved unless  two-thirds  of  the  qualified 
electors  of  the  county,  voting  on  the 
proposition  at  a  general  election,  shall 
vote  in  favor  of  such  removal,  and  two- 
thirds  of  the  votes  cast  on  the  proposition 
shall  be  required  to  relocate  a  county 
seat.  A  proposition  of  removal  shall  not 
be  submitted  in  the  same  county  more 
than  once  in  four  years. 

Sec.  3.  No  territory  shall  be  stricken 
from  any  county  unless  a  majority  of  the 
voters  living  in  such  territory,  as  well  as 
of  the  county  to  which  it  is  to  be  an- 
nexed, shall  vote  therefor,  and  then  only 
under  such  conditions  as  may  be  pre- 
scribed by  general  law. 

Sec.  4.  The  legislature  shall  establish 
a  system  of  county  government,  which 
shall  be  uniform  throughout  the  State, 
and  by  general  laws  shall  provide  for 
precinct   and    township  organizations. 

Sec.  5.  CoriDorations  for  municipal  pur- 
poses shall  not  be  created  by  special 
laws;  the  legislature,  by  general  laws, 
shall  provide  for  the  incorporation,  or- 
ganization, and  classification  of  cities  and 


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towns  in  proportion  to  population;  which 
laws  may  be  altered,  amended,  or  re- 
pealed. 

Sec.  6.  No  municipal  corporation  shall 
directly  or  indirectly  lease,  sell,  alien, 
or  dispose  of  any  waterworks,  water 
rights,  or  sources  of  water  supply  now 
or  hereafter  to  be  owned  or  controlled  by 
it,  but  all  such  waterworks,  water  rig-hts, 
and  sources  of  water  supply  now  owned 
or  hereafter  to  be  acquired  by  any  muni- 
cipal corporation  shall  be  preserved,  main- 
tained, and  operated  by  it  for  supplying 
its  inhabitants  with  water  at  reason- 
able charges:  Provided,  That  nothing 
herein  contained  shall  be  construed  to 
prevent  any  such  municipal  corporation 
from  exchanging  water  rights  or  sources 
of  water  supply  for  other  water  rights  or 
sources  of  water  supply  of  equal  value, 
and  to  be  devoted  in  like  manner  to  the 
public  supply   of   its  inhabitants. 

ARTICLE  XII. 
Corporations. 

Section  1.  Corporations  may  be  formed 
under  general  laws,  but  shall  not  be 
created  by  special  acts.  All  laws  relating 
to  corporations  may  be  altered,  amended, 
or  repealed  by  the  legislature,  and  all 
corporations  doing  business  in  this  State 
may,  as  to  such  business,  be  regulated, 
limited,   or  restrained  by  law. 

Sec.  2.  All  existing  charters,  fran- 
chises, special  or  exclusive  privileges 
under  which  an  actual  and  bona  fide  or- 
ganization shall  not  have  taken  place  and 
business  been  commenced  in  good  faith 
at  the  time  of  the  adoption  of  this  con- 
stitution shall  thereafter  have  no  validity; 
and  no  corporation  in  existence  at  the 
time  of  the  adoption  of  this  constitution 
shall  have  the  benefit  of  future  legisla- 
tion without  first  filing  in  the  office  of 
the  secretary  of  State  an  acceptance  of 
the    provisions  of   this   constitution. 

Sec.  3.  The  legislature  shall  not  extend 
any  franchise  or  charter,  nor  remit  the 
forfeiture  of  any  franchise  or  charter  of 
any  corporation  now  existing  or  which 
shall  hereafter  exist  under  the  laws  of 
this  State. 

Sec.  4.  The  term  "corporation,"  as  used  in 
this  article,  shall  be  construed  to  include 
all  associations,  and  joint  stock  companies 
having  any  power  or  privileges  of  cor- 
porations not  possessed  by  individuals 
or  partnerships,  and  all  corporations  shall 
have  the  right  to  sue,  and  shall  be  sub- 
ject to  be  sued,  in  all  courts  in  like  cases 
as  natural  persons. 

Sec.  5.  Corporations  shall  not  issue 
stock  except  to  bona  fide  subscribers 
thereof  or  their  assignee,  nor  shall  any 
corporation  issue  any  bond  or  other  obli- 


gation for  the  payment  of  money  except 
for  money  or  property  received  or  labor 
done.  The  stock  of  corporations  shall 
not  be  increased  except  in  pursuance  of 
general  law,  nor  shall  any  law  authorize 
the  increase  of  stock  without  the  consent 
of  the  person  or  persons  holding  the 
larger  amount  in  value  of  the  stock,  or 
without  due  notice  of  the  proposed  in- 
crease having  previously  been  given  in 
such  manner  as  may  be  prescribed  by 
law.  A  fictitious  increase  of  stock  or 
indebtedness  shall  be  void. 

Sec.  6.  No  corporation  organized  outside 
of  this  State  shall  be  allowed  to  trans- 
act business  within  the  State  on  condi- 
tions more  favorable  than  those  prescrib- 
ed by  law  to  similar  corporations  organ- 
ized under  the  laws  of  this  State. 

Sec.  7.  No  corporation  shall  lease  or 
alienate  any  franchise  so  as  to  relieve 
the  franchise  or  property  held  thereunder 
from  the  liabilities  of  the  lessor  or  grant- 
or, lessee  or  grantee,  contracted  or  in- 
curred in  operation,  use,  or  enjoyment  of 
such  franchise  or  any  of  its   privileges. 

Sec.  8.  No  law  shall  be  passed  granting 
the  right  to  construct  and  operate  a 
street  railroad,  telegraph,  telephone,  or 
electric  light  plant  within  any  city  or 
incorporated  town  without  the  consent 
of  the  local  authorities  who  have  the 
control  of  the  street  or  highway  proposed 
to  be  occupied  for  such  purposes. 

Sec.  9.  No  corporation  shall  do  business 
in  this  State  without  having  one  or  more 
places  of  business,  with  an  authorized 
agent  or  agents  upon  whom  process  may 
be  served,  nor  without  first  filing  a  cer- 
tified copy  of  its  articles  of  incorporation 
with  the  secretary  of  state. 

Sec.  10,  No  corporation  shall  engage  in 
any  business  other  than  that  expressly 
authorized  in  its  charter  or  articles  of  in- 
corporation. 

Sec.  11.  The  exercise  of  the  right  of 
eminent  domain  shall  never  be  so  abridg- 
ed or  construed  as  to  prevent  the  legisla- 
ture from  taking  the  property  and  fran- 
chises of  incorporated  companies  and  sub- 
jecting them  to  public  use  the  same  as  the 
property  of  individuals. 

Sec.  12.  All  railroad  and  other  transpor- 
tation companies  are  declared  to  be  com- 
mon carriers  and  subject  to  legislative 
control,  and  such  companies  shall  receive 
and  transport  each  other's  passengers 
and  freight  without  discrimination  or  un- 
necessary   delay. 

Sec.  13.  No  railroad  corporation  shall 
consolidate  its  stock,  property,  or  fran- 
chises with  any  other  railroad  corporation 
owning  a  competing  line. 

Sec,  14.  The  rolling  stock  and  other 
movable  property  belonging  to  any  railroad 
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shall  be  considered  personal  property, 
and  shall  be  liable  to  taxation  and  to 
execution  and  sale  in  the  isame  manner 
as  the  personal  property  of  individuals, 
and  such  property  shall  not  be  exempted 
from,  execution  and  sale. 

Sec.  15.  The  legislature  shall  pass  laws 
establishing-  reasonable  maximum  rates 
of  charges  for  the  transportation  of  pas- 
sengers and  freight,  for  correcting  abuses^ 
and  preventing  discrimination  and  extor- 
tion in  rates  of  freight  and  passenger 
tariffs  by  the  different  railroads  and  other 
common  carriers  in  the  state,  and  shall 
enforce  such  laws  by  adequate  penalties. 
Sec.  16.  No  corporation  or  association 
shall  bring  any  armed  person  or  bodies 
of  men  into  this  State  for  the  preservation 
of  the  peace  or  the  suppression  of  domes- 
tic troubles  without  authority  of  law. 

Sec.  17.  No  officer,  employee,  attorney, 
or  agent  of  any  corporation,  company,  or 
association  doing  business  under  or  by 
virtue  of  any  municipal  charter  or 
franchise  shall  be  eligible  to  or  permitted 
to  hold  any  municipal  office  in  the  mu- 
nicipality granting  such  charter  or  fran- 
chise. 

Sec.  18.  The  stockholders  in  every  cor- 
poration and  joint  stock  association  for 
banking  purposes,  in  addition  to  the 
amount  of  capital  stock  subscribed  and 
fully  paid  by  them,  shall  be  individually 
responsible  for  an  additional  amount  equal 
to  the  amount  of  their  stock  in  such  cor- 
poration for  all  its  debts  and  liabilities 
of  every  Icind. 

Sec.  19.  Every  person  in  this  State  shall 
be  free  to  obtain  employment  whenever 
possible,  and  any  person,  corporation,  or 
agent,  servant,  or  employee  thereof,  mali- 
ciously interfering  or  hindering  in  any 
way  any  person  from  obtaining  or  en- 
loying  employment  already  obtained  from 
any  other  corporation  or  person,  shall  be 
deemed  guilty  of  a  crime.  The  legislature 
shall  provide  by  law  for  the  enforcement 
of  this  section. 

Sec.  20.  Any  combination  by  individu- 
als, corporations,  or  associations  having 
for  its  object  or  effect  the  controlling  of 
the  price  of  any  products  of  the  soil,  or  of 
any  article  of  manufacture  or  commerce, 
or  the  cost  of  exchange  or  transportation, 
is  prohibited  and  hereby  declared  unlawful 
and  against  public  policy.  The  legislature 
shall  pass  laws  for  the  enforcement  of 
this  section  by  adequate  penalties,  and, 
in  case  of  incorporated  companies,  if  nec- 
essary, may  declare  a  forfeiture  of  their 
franchise. 

ARTICLE  XIII. 
Revenue   and    Taxation. 
Section   1.     The   fiscal    year    shall    begin 
on  the  first  day  of  January,  unless  chang- 
ed   by    the    legislature. 


Sec.  2.  All  property  in  the  State,  not  ex- 
empt under  the  laws  of  the  United  States 
or  under  this  constitution,  shall  be  taxed 
in  proportion  to  its  value,  tO'  be  ascer- 
tained as  provided  by  law.  The  word 
property,  as  used  in  this  article,  is  hereby 
declared  to  include  moneys,  credits,  bonds» 
stocks,  franchises,  and  all  matters  and 
things  (real,  personal,  and  mixed)  capable 
of  private  ownership;  but  this  shall  not 
be  so  construed  as  to  authorize  the  tax- 
ation of  the  stocks  of  any  company  or 
corporation  when  the  property  of  such 
company  or  corporation  represented  by 
such  stocks  has  been  taxed.  The  legisla- 
ture shall  provide  by  law  for  an  annual 
tax  sufficient,  with,  other  sources  of  reven- 
ue, to  defray  the  estimated  ordinary  ex- 
penses of  the  State  for  each  fiscal  year. 
For  the  purpose  of  paying  the  State 
debt,  if  any  there  be,  the  legislature  shall 
provide  for  levying  a  tax  annually  suffi- 
cient to  pay  the  annual  interest  and  prin- 
cipal of  such  debt  within  twenty  years 
from  the  final  passage  of  the  law  creating 
the   debt. 

Sec.  3.  The  legislature  shall  provide  by 
law  a  uniform  and  equal  rate  of  assess- 
ment and  taxation  on  all  property  in  the 
State  according  to  its  value  in  money, 
and  shall  prescribe  by  general  law  such 
regulations  as  shall  secure  a  just  valua- 
tion for  taxation  of  all  property;  so  that 
every  person  and  corporation  shall  pay  a 
tax  in  proportion  to  the  value  of  his,  her, 
or  its  property:  Provided,  That  a  de- 
duction of  debits  from  credits  may  be  au- 
thorized: Provided  further.  That  the 
property  of  the  United  States,  of  the 
State,  counties,  cities,  towns,  school  dis- 
tricts, municipal  corporations  and  public 
libraries,  lots  with  the  buildings  thereon 
used  exclusively  for  either  religious  wor- 
ship or  charitable  purposes,  and  places 
of  burial  not  held  or  used  for  private  or 
corporate  benefit  shall  be  exempt  from 
taxation.  Ditches,  canals,  and  fiumes 
owned  and  used  by  individuals  or  cor- 
porations for  irrigating  lands  owned  by 
such  individuals  or  corporations,  or  the 
individual  members  thereof,  shall  not  be 
separately  taxed  so  long  as  they  shall  be 
owned  and  used  exclusively  for  such 
purpose. 

Sec.  4.  All  mines  and  mining  claims, 
both  placer  and  rock  in  place,  containing 
or  bearing  gold,  silver,  copper,  lead,  coal, 
or  other  valuable  mineral  deposits,  after 
purchase  thereof  from  the  United  States, 
shall  be  taxed  at  the  price  paid  the 
United  States  therefor,  unless  the  surface 
ground,  or  some  part  thereof,  of  such 
mine  or  claim  is  used  for  other  than 
mining  purposes,  and  has  a  separate  and 
independent  value  for  such  other  pur- 
poses; in  which  case  said  surface  ground, 


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or  any  part  thereof,  so  used  for  other 
than  mining-  purposes  shall  be  taxed  at 
its  value  for  such  other  purposes,  as  pro- 
vided by  law;  and  all  the  machinery  used 
in  mining-,  and  all  property  and  surface 
improvements  upon  or  appurtenant  to 
mines  and  mining  claims,  which  have  a 
value  separate  and  independent  of  such 
mines  or  mining  claims,  and  the  net  an- 
nual proceeds  of  all  mines  and  mining 
claims,  shall  be  taxed  as  provided  by  law. 

Sec.  5.  The  legislature  shall  not  impose 
taxes  for  the  purpose  of  any  county,  city, 
town  or  other  municipal  corporation,  but 
may  by  law  vest  in  the  corporate  au- 
thorities thereof,  respectively,  the  power 
to  assess  and  collect  taxes  for  all  pur- 
poses of  such  corpc.ration. 

Sec.  6.  An  .accurate  statement  of  the 
receipts  and  expenditures  of  the  public 
moneys  shall  be  published  annually  in 
such  manner  as  the  legislature  may  pro- 
vide. 

Sec.  7.  The  rate  of  taxation  on  prop- 
erty for  S'tiate  purposes  shall  never  ex- 
ceed eig-ht  mills  on  each  dollar  of  valua- 
tion; and  whenever  the  taxable  property 
within  the  State  shall  amount  to  two 
hundred  million  dollars  the  rate  shall  not 
exceed  five  mills  on  each  dollar  of  valua- 
tion, unless  a  pri^positjon  to  increase  such 
rate,  specifying  the  rate  proposed  and 
the  time  during-  which  the  same  shall  be 
levied,  be  flret  submitted  to  a  vote  of  such 
of  the  qualified  electors  of  the  State  as 
in  the  year  next  preceding  saich  election, 
shall  have  paid  a  property  tax  assessed 
to  them  within  the  State,  and  the  ma- 
jority of  those  voting  thereon  shall  vote 
in  fa.vor  thereof,  in  such  manner  as  may 
be  provided  by  law. 

Sec.  8.  The  making  of  profit  out  of  pub- 
lic moneys,  or  using  the  same  for  any 
purpose  not  authorized  by  law,  by  any 
public  officer  shall  be  deemed  a  felony, 
and  shall  be  punished  as  provided  by  law, 
but  part  of  such  punishment  shall  be 
disqualification  to  hold  public  office. 

Sec.  9.  No  appropriation  shall  be  made 
or  any  expenditure  authorized  by  the 
legislature  whereby  the  expenditure  of  the 
State  during  any  fiscal  year  shall  exceed 
the  total  tax  then  provided  for  by  law 
and  applicable  for  such  appropriation  or 
expenditure,  unless  the  legislature  making 
such  appropriation  shall  provide  for 
levying-  a  sufficient  tax,  not  exceeding  the 
rates  allowed  in  section  seven  of  this 
article,  to  pay  such  appropriation  or  ex- 
penditure within  such  fiscal  year.  This 
provision  shall  not  apply  to  appropriations 
or  expenditures  to  suppress  insurrections, 
defend  the  State,  or  assist  in  defending 
the  United  States  in  time  of  war. 

Sec.  10.  All  corporations  or  persons  in 
this  State,  or  doing  business  herein,  shall 
be  subject  to  taxation   for  State,    county. 


school,  municipal,  or  other  purposes  on 
the  real  and  personal  property  owned  or 
used  by  them  within  the  territorial  limits 
ot  the  authority  levying  the  tax. 

Sec.  11.  Until  otherwise  provided  by 
law  there  shaili  ibe  a  Slta.te  board  of  equal- 
ization, consrisiting:  of  the  g-overnor.  State 
auditor.  State  treasurer,  secretary  of 
btarte,  and  attorney-gieneral;  also,  in  each 
county  o.f  thte  State,  a  county  board  of 
equalization,  consisting  of  the  board  of 
county  commiissioners  of  said  county. 
Phe  duty  of  the  State  board  of  equaliza- 
tion s'hall  be  to  adjust  and  equalize  the 
valuation  of  the  real  and  personal  prop- 
erty among-  the  several  counties  of  the 
State.  The  duty  of  the  county  board  of 
equalization  sthall  be  to  adjust  and  equal- 
ize the  valuaition  of  the  real  and  personal 
property  wifchSn  their  respective  counties 
-h^ach  board  shall  aiSO  perform  such  other 
duties   as  may   be   prescribed    by   law 

Sec.  12.  Nothing  in  this  constitution 
shall  be  construed  to  prevent  the  legisla- 
ture from  providing  a  stamp  tax,  or  a  tax 
based  on  income,  occupation,  licenses, 
franchises,   or  mortgages. 

ARTICLE   XIV. 
Public  Debt. 

Section  1.  To  meet  casual  deficits  or 
failures  in  revenue,  and  for  necessary 
expenditures  for  public  purposes,  includ- 
ing the  erection  of  public  buildings  and 
for  the  payment  of  all  Territorial  indebt- 
edness assumed  by  the  State,  the  State 
may  contract  debts,  not  exceeding  in  the 
aggregate  at  any  one  time  the  sum  of  two 
hundred  thousand  dollars  over  and  above 
the  amount  of  the  Territorial  indebted- 
ness assumed  by  the  State.  But  when 
the  said  Territorial  indebtedness  shall 
have  been  paid  the  State  shall  never 
contract  any  indebtedness,  except  as  in 
the  next  section  provided,  in  excess  of  the 
sum  of  two  hundred  thousand  dollars, 
and  all  moneys  arising  from  loans  herein 
authorized  shall  be  applied  solely  tO'  the 
purposes  for  which  they  were  obtained. 

Sec.  2.  The  State  may  contract  debts 
to  repel  invasion,  suppress  insurrection, 
or  to  defend  the  State  in  war,  but  the 
money  arising  from  the  contracting  of 
such  debts  shall  be  applied  solely  to  the 
purpose    for    which    it    was    obtained. 

Sec.  3.  No  debt  in  excess  of  the  taxes 
for  the  current  year  shall  be  created  by 
any  county  or  subdivision  thereof,  or 
by  any  school  district  therein,  or  by  any 
city,  town,  or  village,  or  any  subdivision 
thereof  in  this  State,  unless  the  propo- 
sition to  create  such  debt  shall  have  been 
submitted  to  a  vote  of  such  qualified 
electors  as  shall  have  paid  a  property  tax 
therein  in   the  year  preceding   such   elec- 


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tion,  and  a  majority  of  those  voting 
thereon  shall  have  voted  in  favor  of  in- 
curring such  debt. 

Sec.  4.  When  authorized  toi  create  in- 
debtedness as  provided  in  .section  three 
of  this  article,  no  county  shall  become  in- 
debted to  an  amount,  including  existing 
indebtedness,  exceeding  two  per  centum. 
No  city,  town,  school  district,  or  other 
municipal  corporation  shall  become  in- 
debted to  an  amount,  including  existing 
indebtedness,  exceding  four  per  centum  of 
the  value  of  the  taxable  property  therein, 
the  value  to  be  ascertained  by  the  last 
assessment  for  State  and  county  purposes 
previous  to  the  incurring  of  such  indebt- 
edness; except  that  in  incorporated  cities 
the  assessment  shall  be  taken  from  the 
last  assessment  for  city  purposes:  Pro- 
vided, That  no  part  of  the  indebtedness 
allowed  in  this  section  shall  be  incurred 
for  other  than  strictly  county,  city,  town, 
or  school  district  purposes:  Provided 
further,  That  any  city  or  town,  when  au- 
thorized as  provided  in  section  three  of 
this  article,  may  be  allowed  to  incur  a 
larger  indebtedness,  not  exceeding  four 
per  centum  additional  for  supplying  such 
city  or  town  with  water,  artificial  light, 
or  sewers,  when  the  works  for  supplying 
such  water,  light,  and  sewers  shall  be 
owned  and  controlled  by  the  municipal- 
ity. 

Sec.  5.  All  moneys  borrowed  by  or  on 
behalf  of  the  States  or  any  legal  subdivis- 
ion thereof,  shall  be  used  solely  for  the 
purpose  specified  in  the  law  authorizing 
the  loan. 

Sec.  6.  The  State  shall  not  assume  the 
debt,  or  any  part  thereof,  of  any  county, 
city,    town,    or   school   district. 

Sec.  7.  Nothing  in  this  article  shall  be 
so  construed  as  to  impair  or  add  to  the 
obligation  of  any  debt  heretofore  con- 
tracted, in  accordance  with  the  laws  of 
Utah  Territory,  by  any  county,  city,  town 
or  school  district,  or  to  prevent  the  con- 
tracting of  any  debt,  or  the  issuing  of 
bonds  therefor,  in  accordance  with  said 
laws,  upon  any  proposition  for  that  pur- 
pose which,  according  to  said  laws,  may 
have  been  submitted  to  a  vote  of  the 
qualified  electors  of  any  county,  city, 
town,  or  school  district  before  the  day 
on  which  this  constitution  takes  effect. 

ARTICLE  XV. 
Militia. 

Section  1.  The  militia  shall  consist  of 
all  able-bodied  male  inhabitants  of  the 
State  between  the  ages  of  eighteen  and 
forty-five  years,  except  such  as  are  ex- 
empt by  law. 

Sec.  2.  The  legislature  shall  provide  by 
law  for  the  organization,   equipment,   and 


discipline  of  the  militia,  which  shall  con- 
form as  nearly  as  practicable  to  the  regu- 
lations for  the  government  of  the  armies 
of  the  United  States. 

ARTICLE   XVI. 
Labor. 

Section  1.  The  rights  of  labor  shall  have 
just  protection  through  laws  calculated 
to  promote  the  industrial  welfare  of  the 
State. 

Sec.  2.  The  legislature  shall  provide  by 
law  for  a  board  of  labor,  conciliation,  and 
arbitration,  which  shall  fairly  represent 
the  interests  of  both  capital  and  labor. 
The  board  shall  perform  duties  and  re- 
ceive compensation  as  prescribed  by  law. 

Sec.    3.     The   legislature    shall    prohibit: 

First— The  employment  of  women  or  of 
children  under  the  age  of  fourteen  years 
in    underground   mines. 

Second— The  contracting  of  convict 
labor. 

Third— The  labor  of  convicts  outside 
prison  grounds,  except  on  public  works 
under   the   direct    control    of    the   State. 

Fourth — The  political  and  commercial 
control   of  employees. 

Sec.  4.  The  exchange  of  black  lists  by 
railroad  companies  or  other  corporations, 
associations,    or    persons    is    prohibited. 

Sec.  5.  The  right  of  action  to  recover 
damages  for  injuries  resulting  in  death 
shall  never  be  abrogated,  and  the  amount 
recoverable  shall  not  be  subject  to  any 
statutory    limitation. 

Sec.  6.  Eight  hours  shall  constitute  a 
day's  work  on  all  works  or  undertakings 
carried  on  or  aided  by  the  State,  county, 
or  municipal  governments,  and  the  legisla- 
ture shall  pass  laws  to  provide  for  the 
health  and  safety  of  employees  in  factor- 
ies,  smelters,   and  mines. 

Sec.  7.  The  legislature,  by  appropriate 
legislation,  shall  provide  for  the  enforce- 
ment of  the  provisions  of  this  article. 

ARTICLE   XVII. 
Water   Rights. 

Section  1.  All  existing  rights  to  the 
use  of  any  of  the  waters  in  this  State  for 
any  useful  or  beneficial  purpose  are  here- 
by recognized  and  confirmed. 

ARTICLE  XVIII. 

Forestry. 

Section  1.  The  legislature  shall  enact 
laws  to  prevent  the  destruction  of  and 
to  preserve  the  forests  on  the  lands  of 
the  State  and  upon  any  part  of  the  public 
domain  the  control  of  which  may  be 
conferred  by  Congrtss  upon  the  State. 


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ARTICKB  XIX. 
Public    Buildings    and    State    Institutions. 

Section  1.  All  institutions  and  other 
property  of  the  Territory  upon  the  adop- 
tion of  this  constitution  shall  become  the 
institutions  and  property  of  the  State  of 
Utah. 

Sec.  2.  Reformatory  and  penal  institu- 
tions, and  those  for  the  benefit  of  the 
insane,  blind,  deaf  and  dumb,  and  such 
other  institutions  as  the  public  g-ood 
may  require,  shall  be  established  and 
supported  by  the  State  in  such  manner 
and  under  such  boards  of  control  as  may 
be   prescribed  by  law. 

Sec,  3.  The  public  institutions  of  the 
State  are  hereby  permanently  located  at 
the  places  hereinafter  named,  each  to 
have  the  lands  specifically  granted  to  it 
by  the  United  States  in  the  act  of  Com- 
gress  approved  July  16,  1894,  to  be  dis- 
posed of  and  used  in  such  manner  as 
the  legislature   may   provide: 

First— The  seat  of  government  and  the 
State  fair,  at  Salt  Lake  City,  and  the 
State  prison  in  the  county  of  Salt  Lake. 

Second— The  institutions  for  the  deaf 
and  dumb  and  the  blind  and  the  State 
reform  school,  at  Ogden  City,  in  the  coun- 
ty of  Weber. 

Third— The  State  insane  asylum,  at 
Prove  City,  in  the  county  of  Utah. 

ARTICLE   XX. 

Public   Lands. 

Section  1.  All  lands  of  the  State  that 
have  been  or  may  hereafter  be  granted  to 
the  State  by  Congress,  and  all  lands  ac- 
quired by  gift,  grant,  or  devise  from  any 
person  or  corporation,  or  that  may  other- 
wise be  acquired,  are  hereby  accepted 
and  declared  to  be  the  public  lands  of 
the  State,  and  shall  be  held  in  trust  for 
the  people,  to  be  disposed  of  as  may  be 
provided  by  law,  for  the  respective  pur- 
poses for  which  they  have  been  or  may 
be  granted,  donated,  devised,  or  other- 
wise acquired. 

ARTICLE   XXI. 
Sialaries. 

Section  L  All  State^  district,  city, 
county,  town,  and  school  officers,  except- 
ing notaries  public,  boards  of  arbitration, 
court  commissioners,  justices  of  the 
peace  and  constables,  shall  be  paid  fixed 
and  definite  salaries:  Provided,  That 
city  justices  may  be  paid  by  salary  when 
so  determined  by  the  mayor  and  council 
of  such  cities. 

Sec.  2,  The  legislature  shall  provide  by 
law  the  fees  which  shall  be  collected  by 
all    officers    within    the    State.      Notaries 


public,  boards  of  arbitration,  court  com- 
missioners, justices  of  the  peace,  and  con- 
stables paid  by  fees  shall  accept  said  fees 
as  their  full  compensation.  But  all  other 
State,  district,  county,  city,  town,  and 
school  officers  shall  be  required  by  law 
to  keep  a  true  and  correct  account  of  all 
fees  collected  by  them,  and  to  pay  the 
same  into  the  proper  treasury,  and  the 
officer  whose  duty  it  is  to  collect  such 
fees  shall  be  held  responsible  under  his 
bond  for  the  same. 

ARTICLE  XXII. 
Miscellaneous. 

Section  1.  The  legislature  shall  provide 
by  law  for  the  selection  by  each  head  of 
a  family  an  exemption  of  a  homestead, 
which  may  consist  of  one  or  more  parcels 
of  land,  together  with  the  appurtenances 
and  improvements  thereon,  of  the  value 
of  at  least  fifteen  hundred  dollars,  from 
sale  on  execution. 

Sec.  2.  Real  and  personal  estate  of  every 
female  acquired  before  marriage,  and  all 
property  to  which  she  may  afterwards  be- 
come entitled  by  purchase,  gift,  grant, 
inheritance,  or  devise,  shall  be  and  re- 
main the  estate  and  property  of  such  fe- 
male, and  shall  not  be  liable  for  the  debts, 
obligations,  or  engagements  of  her  hus- 
band, and  may  be  conveyed,  devised,  or 
bequeathed  by  her  as  if  she  were  un- 
married. 

ARTICLE  XXIII. 
Amendments. 

Section  1.  Any  amendment  or  amend- 
ments to  this  constitution  may  be  pro- 
posed in  either  house  of  the  legislature, 
and  if  two-thirds  of  all  the  members  elect- 
ed to  eacii  of  the  two  houses  shall  vote  in 
favor  thereof  such  proposed  amendment 
or  amendments  shall  be  entered  on  their 
respective  journals  with  the  yeas  and 
nays  taken  thereon;  and  the  legislature 
shall  cause  the  same  to  be  published  in 
at  least  one  newspaper  in  every  county 
of  the  State  where  a  newspaper  is  pub- 
lished, for  two  months  immediately  pre- 
ceding the  next  general  election,  at  which 
time  the  said  amendment  or  amendments 
shall  be  submitted  to  the  electors  of  the 
State  for  their  approval  or  rejection,  and 
if  a  majority  of  the  electors  voting  there- 
on shall  approve  the  same,  such  amend- 
ment or  amendments  shall  become  part 
of  this  constitution.  If  two  or  more 
amendments  are  proposed,  they  shall  be 
so  submitted  as  to  enable  the  electors  to 
vote  on  each  of  them  separately. 

Sec.  2.  Whenever  two-thirds  of  the 
members  elected  to  each  branch  of  the 
legislature    shall    deem    it    necessary    to 


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call  a  convention  to  revise  or  amend  this 
constitution,  they  shall  recommend  to 
the  electors  to  vote  at  the  next  general 
election  for  or  against  a.  convention,  anu 
if  a  majority  of  all  the  electors  voting  at 
such  election  shall  vote  for  a  convention, 
the  legislature  at  its  next  session  shall 
provide  by  law  for  calling  the  same.  The 
convention  shall  consist  of  not  less  than 
the  number  of  members  in  both  branches 
of    the    legislature. 

Sec.  3.  No  constitution  or  amendments 
adopted  by  such  convention  shall  have 
validity  until  submitted  to  and. adopted  by 
a  majority  of  the  electors  of  the  State 
voting  at  the  next  general  election. 

ARTICLE  XXIV. 
Schedule. 

Section  1.  In  order  that  no  inconven- 
ience may  arise  by  reason  of  the  change 
from  a  Territorial  to  a  State  government, 
it  is  hereby  declared  that  all  writs,  act- 
ions, prosecutions,  judgments,  claims,  and 
contracts,  as  well  of  individuals  as  of 
bodies  corporate,  both  public  and  private, 
shall  continue  as  if  no  change  had  taken 
place;  and  all  process  which  may  issue 
under  the  authority  of  the  Territory  of 
Utah  previous  to  its  admission  into  the 
Union  shall  be  as  valid  as  if  issued  in  the 
name  of  the   State  of  Utah. 

Sec.  2.  All  laws  of  the  Territory  of 
Utah  now  in  force,  not  repugnant  to  this 
constitution,  shall  remain  in  force  until 
they  expire  by  their  own  limitations  or 
are  altered  or  repealed  by  the  legislature. 
The  act  of  the  governor  and  legislative 
assembly  of  the  Territory  of  Utah  enti- 
tled "An  act  to  punish  polygamy  and 
other  kindred  offenses."  approved  Feb- 
ruary 4,  A.  D.  1892,  in  so  far  as  the 
same  defines  and  imposes  penalties  for 
polygamy,  is  hereby  declared  to  be  in 
force  in  the  State  of  Utah. 

Sec.  3.  Any  person  who,  at  the  time  or 
the  admission  of  the  State  into  the  Union, 
may  be  confined  under  lawful  commit- 
ments, or  otherwise  lawfully  held  to  an- 
swer for  alleged  violations  of  any  of  the 
criminal  laws  of  the  Territory  of  Utah, 
shall  continue  to  be  so  held  or  confined 
until  discharged  therefrom  by  the  proper 
courts   of    the    State. 

Sec.  4.  All  fines,  penalties,  and  forfeit- 
ures accruing  to  the  Territory  of  Utah 
or  to  the  people  of  the  United  States  in 
the  Territory  of  Utah,  shall  inure  to 
this  State,  and  all  debts,  liabilities,  and 
obligations  of  said  Territory  shall  be 
valid  ag^ainst  the  State  and  enforced  as 
may  be  provided  by  law. 

Sec.  5.  All  recognizances  heretofore 
taken,  or  which  may  be  taken  before  the 
change  from  a  Territorial  to  a  State  gov- 


ernment, shall  remain  valid,  and  shall 
pass  to  and  be  prosecuted  in  the  name 
of  the  State;  and  all  bonds  executed  to 
the  governor  of  the  Territory,  or  to  any 
other  officer  or  court  in  his  or  their  offi- 
cial capacity,  or  to  any  official  board  for 
the  benefit  of  the  Territory  of  Utah,  or 
the  people  thereof,  shall  pass  to  the  gov- 
ernor or  other  officer,  court,  or  board, 
and  his  or  their  successors  in  office,  for 
the  uses  therein  respectively  expressed, 
and  may  be  sued  on  and  recovered  ac- 
cordingly. Assessed  taxes  and  all  rev- 
enue, property— real,  personal,  or  mixed — 
_  and  all  judgmeptsi,  bomds,  specialties, 
choses  in  action,  claims,  and  debts  of 
whatsoe'ver  description,  and  all  records 
and  public  archives  of  the  Territory  of 
Ti^tah,  shall  issue  and  vest  in  the  State 
of  Utah,  and  may  be  sued  for  and  recov- 
ered in  the  same  manner  and  to  the  same 
extent  by  the  State  of  Utah  as  the  same 
could  have  been  by  the  Territory  of  Utah; 
and  all  fines,  taxes,  penalties,  and  for- 
feitures due  or  owing  to  any  county,  mu- 
nicipality, or  school  district  therein  at 
the  time  the  State  shall  be  admitted  into 
the  Union  are  hereby  respectively  as- 
signed and  transferred,  and  the  same 
shall  be  payable  to  the  county,  munici- 
pality, or  school  district,  as  the  case  may 
be,  and  payment  thereof  be  enforced  un- 
der the  laws  of  the   State. 

Sec.  G.  All  criminal  prosecutions  a.nd 
penal  actions  which  may  have  arisen  or 
which  may  arise  before  the  change  from 
a  Territorial  to  a  State  government,  and 
which  shall  then  be  pending,  shall  be 
prosecuted  to  judgment  and  execution  in 
the  name  of  the  State,  and  in  the  court 
having  jurisdiction  thereof.  All  offenses 
committed  against  the  laws  of  the  Terri- 
tory of  Utah  before  the  change  from  a 
Territorial  to  a  State  government,  and 
which  shall  not  have  been  prosecuted 
before  such  change,  may  be  prosecuted  in 
the  name  and  by  the  authority  of  the 
State  of  Utah,  with  like  effect  as  though 
such  ch^.nge  had  not  taken  place,  and 
all  penalties  incurred  shall  remain  the 
same  as  if  this  constitution  had  not  been 
adopted. 

Sec.  7.  All  actions,  cases,  proceedings, 
and  matters  pending  in  the  supreme  and 
district  courts  of  the  Territory  of  Utah 
at  the  time  the  State  shall  be  admitted 
into  the  Union,  and  all  files,  records,  and 
indictments  relating  thereto,  except  as 
otherwise  provided  herein,  shall  be  ap- 
propriately transferred  to  the  supreme 
and  district  courts  of  the  State,  respec- 
tively; and  thereafter  all  such  actions, 
matters,  and  cases  shall  be  proceeded  with 
in  the  proper  State  courts.  All  actions, 
cases,  proceedings,  and  matters  which 
shall  be  pending  in  the  district  courts  of 


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the  Territory  of  Utah  at  the  time  of  the 
admission  of  the  State  into  the  Union 
whereof  the  United  States  circuit  or  dis- 
trict courts  might  have  had  jurisdiction 
had  there  been  a  State  government  at  the 
time  of  the  commencement  thereof,  re- 
spectively, shall  be  transferred  to  the 
proper  United  States  circuit  and  district 
courts,  respectively;  and  all  files,  records, 
indictments,  and  proceedings  relating 
thereto  shall  be  transferred  to  said  United 
States  courts:  Provided,  That  no  civil 
actions,  other  than  causes  and  proceed- 
ings of  which  the  said  United  States 
courts  shall  have  exclusive  jurisdiction, 
shall  be  transferred  to  either  of  said 
United  States  courts  except  upon  moftion 
or  petition  by  one  of  the  parties  thereto, 
made  under  and  in  accordance  with  the 
act  or  acts  of  the  Congress  of  the  United 
States,  and  such  motion  and  petition  not 
being  made,  all  such  cases  shall  be  pro- 
ceeded with  in  the  proper  State  courts. 

Sec.  8.  Upon  a  change  from  Territorial 
to  State  government,  the  seal  in  use  by 
the  supreme  court  of  the  Territory  of 
Utah,  until  otherwise  provided  by  law, 
S'hall  pass  to  and  become  the  seal  of  the 
supreme  court  of  the  State,  and  the  sev- 
eral district  courts  of  the  State  may  adopt 
seals  for  their  respective  courts,  until 
otherwise  provided  by  law. 

Sec.  9.  When  the  State  is  admitted  into 
the  Union,  and  the  district  courts  in  the 
respective  districts  are  organized,  the 
books,  records,  papers,  and  proceedings 
of  the  probate  court  in  each  county,  and 
all  causes  and  matters  of  administration 
pending  therein,  upon  the  expiration  of 
the  term  of  office  of  the  probate  judge, 
on  the  second  Monday  in  January,  1896, 
shall  pass  into  the  jurisdiction  and  pos- 
session of  the  district  court,  which  shall 
proceed  to  final  judgment  or  decree,  order, 
or  other  determination  in  the  several  mat- 
ters and  causes  as  the  Territorial  probate 
court  might  have  done  if  this  constitu- 
tion had  not  been  adopted.  And  until 
the  expiration  of  the  tei*m  of  office  of 
the  probate  judges,  such  probate  judges 
shall  perform  the  duties  now  imposed 
upon  them  by  the  laws  of  the  Territory. 
The  district  court  shall  have  appellate  ana 
revisory  jurisdiction  over  the  decisions  of 
the  probate  courts,  as  now  provided  by 
law,  until  such  latter  courts  expire  by 
limitation. 

Sec.  10.  All  officers,  civil  and  military, 
now  holding  their  offices  and  appoint- 
ments in  this  Territory  by  authority  of 
law,  shall  continue  to  hold  and  exercise 
their  respective  offices  and  appointments 
until  superseded  under  this  constitution: 
Provided,  That  the  provisions  of  this  sec- 
tion shall  be  subject  to  the  provisions  of 
the    act    of    Congress    providing    for    the 


admission  of  the  State  of  Utah,  approved 
by  the  President  of  the  United  States  on 
July  16,  1894. 

Sec.  11.  The  election  for  the  adoption  or 
rejection  of  this  constitution,  and  for 
State  officers  herein  provided  for,  shall  be 
held  on  the  Tuesday  next  after  the  first 
Monday  in  November,  1895,  and  shall  be 
conducted  according  to  the  laws  of  the 
Territory  and  the  provisions  of  the  en- 
abling act;  the  votes  cast  at  said  election 
shall  be  canvassed  and  returns  made  in 
the  same  manner  as  was  provided  for  in 
the  election  for  delegates  to  the  consti- 
tutional convention:  Provided,  That  all 
male  citizens  of  the  United  States  over 
the  age  of  twenty-one  years,  who  have 
resided  in  the  Territory  for  one  year 
prior  to  such  election,  are  hereby  author- 
ized to  vote  for  or  against  the  adoption 
of  this  constitution,  and  for  the  State 
officers  herein  provided  for.  The  returns 
of  said  election  shall  be  made  tO'  the 
Utah  commission,  who  shall  cause  the 
same  to  be  canvassed,  and  shall  certify 
the  result  of  the  vote  for  or  against  the 
constitution  to  the  President  of  the 
United  States  in  the  manner  required  by 
the  enabling  act;  and  said  commission 
shall  issue  certificates  of  election  to  the 
persons  elected  to  said  offices  severally, 
and  shall  make  and  file  with  the  secretary 
of  the  Territory  an  abstract,  certified  to 
by  them,  of  the  number  of  votes  cast  for 
each  person  for  each  of  said  offices,  and  of 
the  total  number  of  votes  cast  in  each 
county. 

Sec.  12.  The  State  officers  to  be  voted 
for  at  the  time  of  the  adoption  of  this 
constitution  shall  ^e  a  governor,  secretary 
of  State,  State  auditor.  State  treasurer, 
attorney-general,  superintendent  of  public 
instruction,  members  of  the  senate  and 
house  of  representatives,  three  supreme 
judges,  nine  district  judges,  and  a  repre- 
sentative to  Congress. 

Sec.  13.  In  case  of  a  contest  of  election 
between  candidates  at  the  first  general 
election  under  this  constitution  for  judges 
of  the  district  courts,  the  evidence  shall 
be  taken  in  the  manner  prescribed  by  the 
Territorial  laws,  and  the  testimony  so 
taken  shall  be  certified  to  the  secretary  of 
State,  and  said  officer,  together  with  the 
governor  and  the  treasurer  of  the  State, 
shall  review  the  evidence  and  determine 
who  is  entitled  to  the  certificate  of  elec- 
tion. 

Sec.  14.  This  constitution  shall  be  sub- 
mitted for  adoption  or  rejection  to  a  vote 
of  the  Qualified  electors^  of  the  proposed 
State  at  the  general  election  to  be  held  on 
the  Tuesday  next  after  the  first  Monday 
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election  the  ballot  shall  be  in  the  follow- 
ing:   form: 

For  the  constitution:    Yes.    No. 

As  a  heaojng-  to  each  of  said  ballots 
there  shall  be  printed  on  each  ballot  the 
follawing    instructions    to    voters: 

All  persons  desiring  to  vote  for  the  con- 
stitution must  erase   the  word  "No." 

All  persons  desiring-  to  vote  against  the 
constitution   must  erase  the  word   "Yes." 

Sec.  15.  The  legislature  at  its  first  ses- 
sion shall  provide  for  the  election  of  all 
officers  whose  election  is  not  provided  for 
elsewhere  in  this  constitution,  and  fix 
the  time  for  the  commencement  and 
duration  of  their  terms. 

Sec.  16.  The  provisions  of  this  consti- 
tution shall  be  in  force  from  the  day  on 
which  the  President  of  the  United  States 
shall  issue  his  proclamation  declaring  the 
State  of  Utah  admitted  into  the  Union; 
and  the  terms  of  all  officers  elected  at 
the  first  election  under  the  provisions  of 
this  constitution  shall  commence  on  the 
first  Monday  next  succeeding  the  issue  of 
said  proclamation.  Their  terms  of  office 
shall  expire  when  their  successors  are 
elected  and  qualified  under  this  consti- 
tution. 


Done  in  convention  at  Salt  Lake  City,  in 

the  Territory  of  Utah,  this  eighth  day  of 

May,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thou- 
sand eight  hundred  and  ninety-five,  and 

of  the  independence  of  the  United  States 

the    one    hundred    and    nineteenth. 

JOHN  HENRY  SMITH,  President. 
Attest: 

PARLEY    P.    CHRISTENSEN, 

Secretary. 

Louis   Bemhadt   Adams, 

Rufus  Albern   Allen, 

Andrew    Smith    Anderson, 

John    Richard    Barnes, 

John    Rutledge    Bowdle, 

John   Sell    Boyer, 

Theodore  Brandley, 

Herbert  Guion  Button, 

William  Buys, 

Chester    Call, 

George    Mousley    Cannon, 

John    Foy    Chidester, 

Parley   Christiansen, 

Thomas    H.    Clark,    Jr., 

Louis    Laville    Coray, 

Elmer    Ellsworth    Corfman, 

Charles    Crane, 

William     Creer, 

George  Cunningham, 

Arthur    John     Gushing, 

William  Driver, 

Dennis    Clay    Eichnor, 

Alma   Eldredge, 

George  Rhodes  Emery, 


Andreas  Engberg, 
David  Evans, 
Abel    John    Evans, 
Lorin  Parr, 
Samuel    Francis, 
William  Henry  Gibbs, 
Charles   Carrol    Goodwin, 
James    Frederic    Green, 
Francis   Asbury    Hammond, 
Charles  Henry  Hart, 
Harry  Haynes, 
John    Daniel    Holladay, 
Robert   W.    Heyborne, 
Samuel    Hood   Hill, 
William    Howard, 
Henry    Hughes, 
Joseph  Alonzo  Hyde, 
Anthony     Woodward    Ivins, 
William   F.    James, 
Lycurgus   Johnson, 
Joseph  Loftis  Jolley, 
Frederick    John    Kiesel, 
David  Keith, 
Thomas    Kearns^ 
William    Jasper   Kerr, 
Andrew    Kimball, 
James    Nathaniel    Kimball, 
Richard   G.    Lambert, 
Lauritz    Larsen, 
Chris'ten    Peter    Larsen, 
Hyrum    Lemmon, 
Theodore    Belden   Lewis, 
William    Lowe, 
Peter  Lowe. 
James  Paton  Low, 
Anthony  Canute  Lund, 
Karl  G.  Maeser, 
Richard    Mackintosh, 
Thomas  Maloney, 
William    H.    Maughn, 
Robert   McFarland, 
George  P.    Miller, 
Elias    Morris, 
Jacob   Moritz, 
John    Riggs    Murdock, 
Joseph  Royal  Murdock, 
James   David    Murdock, 
Aquilla   Nebeker, 
Jeremiah  Day  Page, 
Edward    Partridge, 
J.   D.   Peters, 
Mons    Peterson, 
James  Christian  Peterson, 
Franklin    Pierce, 
William   B.   Preston. 
Alonzo  Hazelton  Raleigh, 
Franklin  Snyder  Richards, 
Joel  Ricks, 

Brigham     Henry    Roberts, 
Jasper   Robertson, 
Joseph    Eldridge    Rohinson, 
Willis  "  Eugene    Robison, 
George  Ryan, 
John     Henry     Smith, 
George    B.    Squires, 
William    Gilson    Shaip, 


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'M\      S-. 


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GEORGE    M.    CANNON. 


R.    C.    CHAMBERS. 


M.    M.    WxVRNER. 


NOBLE  WARRUM,  JR. 


THE^   STATE   OF   UTAH. 


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Harrison    Tuttle    Shurtliff, 
Edmund    Hunter    Snow, 
Hyrum    Hupp    Spencer, 
David     Brainerd     Stover, 
Charles  Nettleton  Strevell, 
Charles    William    Symons, 
Daniel    Thompson, 
Moses   Thatcher, 
Ing-w^ald    Conr-ad    Thoresen, 
Joseph     Ephraim     Thorne, 
Samuel    R.    Thurman, 
William    Grant    Van    Home, 
Charles    Stetson   Varian, 
Heber    M.    Wells, 
Noble    Warrum,    Jr.. 
Orson  P^'erg-uson  Whitney, 
Josieph   John   Williams. 


STATE   OFFIOERS.   STATE   OF  LTAH. 

Governor— Heber  M.  Weils. 

Secretary  of  State— James  T.  Hammond. 

Attorney  General— A.    C.    Bishop. 

State   Auditor— Morgan    Richards,    Jr. 

State  Treasurer— James   Chipraan. 

Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction— 
Dr.   J.  R.    Park. 

Judg-es  of  the  Supreme  Court— C.  S. 
Zane,  G.  W.  Bartch  and  J.  A.  Miner. 

Clerk  of  the  Supreme  Court— D.  P. 
Palmer. 

Reporter  of  the  Supreme  Court— J.  M. 
Tanner. 

State  Bank  Examiner— The  Secretary  of 
State. 

State  Coal  Mine  Inspector— Thomas 
Lloyd. 

State  Pish  and  Game  Warden— John 
Sharp. 

Board  of  Examiners— The  Governor, 
Secretary  of  State  and  Attorney  General. 

State  Board  of  Land  Commissioners— 
The  Governor,  Secretary  of  State  and  At- 
torney General,  and  W.  K.  Walton  and  T. 
D.   Rees. 

State  Board  of  Eaualization— R.  C. 
Lund,  J.  E.  Booth,  T.  D.  Dee  and  J.  J. 
Thomas. 

Board  of  Pardons— The  Governor,  At- 
torney General,  and  members  of  the  Su- 
preme Court. 

State  Board  of  Loan  Commissioners— 
The  Governor,  Secretary  of  State  and  At- 
torney  General. 

State  Board  of  Education— The  Superin- 
tendent of  Public  Instruction,  the  Presi- 
dents of  the  University  and  Agricultural 
College,  J.  H.  Millspaugh  and  D.  H. 
Christensen. 

Directors  of  the  Deseret  Agricultural 
and  Manufacturing  Society— J.  R.  Win- 
der, N.  A.  Empev,  Mrs.  M.  B.  Saulisbury, 
F.  W.  Jennings,  S.  W.  Sears,  Mrs.  B. 
Bamberger,  Mrs.  Mary  D.  Henricksen, 
R.  C.  Chambers,  E.  J.  Conrad,  Abram 
Hatch,  L.  W.  Shurtliff  and  Mrs.  C.  H. 
Clayton. 


State  Board  of  Horticulture— J.  A. 
Wright,  president.  Other  members  to  be 
appointed,  one  in  each  county  by  county 
commissioners. 

Board  of  Medical  Examiners— F,  S.  Bas- 
com,  J.  M.  Dart,  J.  T.  White,  O.  C. 
Ormsby,  M.  N.  Graves,  S.  L.  Brick  and 
W.  R.  Pike. 

Board  of  Dental  Examiners — H.  A. 
Whitney,  J.  W.  Thatcher,  S.  H,  Clawson, 
George  E.  Ellerbeck  and  A.  S.  Chapman. 

Board  of  Pharmacy— C.  H.  McCoy,  J. 
B.  Farlow,  G.  H.  Fennemore,  John  L. 
Boyden  and  B.  F.  Riter. 

Code  Commission — R.  W.  Young,  Grant 
H.  Smith  and  W.  A.  Lee. 

Utah  Silk  Commission — Mrs.  Z.  D.  H. 
Young-,  Mrs.  I. "  E.  Bennett,  Mrs.  M.  A. 
Caine,  Mrs.  A.  C.  Woodbury,  Mrs.  M.  A. 
Cazier. 

OFFICERS   OF   THE   NATIONAL 
GUARD  OF  UTAH. 

Willard  Young,  Brigadier  General,  com- 
manding- First  Brigade. 

John,  Q.  Cannon,  Adjutant  General. 

Inspector  General— Not  appointed  at 
time  of  issue. 

C.   S.   Burton,   Quartermaster  General, 

T.  J.  Stevens,  Commissary  General. 

G.   H.  Penrose,  Surgeon  General. 

Noble  Warrum,  Jr.,  Judge  Advocate 
General. 

Inspector  of  Targ-et  Practice— Not  ap- 
pointed at  time  of  issue. 

N.  W.  Clayton  and  Henry  J.  Newman, 
Aides-de-Gamp. 


STATE     INSTITUTIONS. 

UNIVERSITY   OF    UTAH. 

James  E.  Talmage,  president. 

Located  at  Salt  Lake  City.  Established 
by  leg-islative  act  in  February,  1850,  and 
opened  for  the  admission  of  students  in 
November,  same  year.  The  University 
building-s  comprise  a  main  structure  llOx 
151  feet,  four  stories  in  heig-ht,  the  west 
building-  77x127  feet,  three  stories  in 
height,  both  built  of  stone  and  brick,  and 
located  on  the  city  block  lying-  between 
First  and  Second  North  streets  and  Sec- 
ond and  Third  West  streets.  The  physi- 
cal and  chemical  laboratories  are  located 
in  a  new  and  beautiful  structure,  known 
as  the  Deseret  Museum  building.  The 
Fremont  school,  near  the  University  site, 
is  used  for  a  training-  school  in  connec- 
tion with  the  work  of  the  normal  courses. 
The  University  has  a  large  museum, 
which  now  possesses  upward  of  3,500 
specimens  of  ores,  rocks  and  minerals; 
2,500  fossils  and  casts;  3,000  botanical  pre- 
parations; 600  zoolog-ical  preparations;  150 
ethnological  specimens  and  200  curios. 
Total  value  of  University  buildings  and 
grounds,  $250,327. 


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THE   STATE  OP  UTAH. 


BOARD   OF   REGENTS. 

J.  E.  Talmage,  L.  S.  Hills,  Mrs.  Emma 
J.  McVlcar,  John  Q.  Packard,  Waldemar 
Van  Cott,  Isaac  Smith,  Moses  Thatcher, 
Frank  Pierce  and  J.   J.   Daly. 

Secretary — Frank  Pierce. 

Treasurer— R.  C.  Chambers. 


AGRICULTURAL  COLLEGE. 

J.  M.   Tanner,   president. 

Located  at  Log-an,   Cache  county, 
tablished  by  legislative  act  in  1888. 
of  buildings  and  grounds,  $211,947. 


Es- 
Cost 


BOARD    OF    TRUSTEES. 

W.    S.    McCornick,    M.    W.    Merrill,    Sr., 

Lorenzo   Hansen,    Sarah   G.   Goodwin,    D. 

C.   Adams,    Mrs.    Emily   S.   Richards   and 

John  C.  Graham. 


OFFICERS    OF    THE    BOARD. 

W.   S.   McCornick,   president;  Joseph  E. 
Hyde,  secretary;  R.  S.  Lyon,  treasurer. 


STATE  INDUSTRIAL  SCHOOL. 

E.  M.  Allison,  superintendent;  Mrs.  E. 
M.  Allison,  matron. 

Located  at  Ogden,  Weber  county.  Es- 
tablished 1888.  Opened  for  inmates  Octo- 
ber 31.  1889.  The  buildings  are  of  brick 
and  stone,  and  consist  of  a  main  struc- 
ture 60x142  feet,  four  stories  in  height;  a 
rear  building  100x102  feet,  three  stories  in 
heig-ht.  The  farm  of  fifty-seven  acres, 
with  barns  and  outbuildings,  is  located 
within  200  yards  of  the  main  building. 
The  total  value  of  the  buildings  and 
grounds,  according  to  the  auditor's  report, 
is   $164,823. 


BOARD  OF   TRUSTEES. 
John    T.    Rich,    Ashby    Stringham    and 
Joseph  S.  Peery. 


STATE  INSANE  ASYLUM. 

L.  M.  Hardy,  M.  D.,  superintendent;  H. 
S.    Pyne,    steward. 

Located  at  Provo,  Utah  county.  Es- 
tablished by  legislative  act,  1880.  Opened 
for  the  reception  of  patients,  July  20, 
1895.  The  building,  consisting  of  a  main 
structure  and  two  wings,  is  built  of  brick 
and  stone.  The  total  value  of  building 
and  site,  according  to  the  auditor's  re- 
port   for   1894.    is  $340,983. 


BOARD   OF   DIRECTORS. 
The   governor,    State  auditor  and   State 


OFFICERS  OF  THE   BOARD. 

Governor  Wells,  president;  Charles  De- 
Moisey,  secretary;  W.  H.  Dusenberry, 
treasurer. 


STATE  SCHOOL  FOR  THE  DEAF  AND 
DUMB. 

Located  at  Ogden.     Established  by  act 
of  the  legislature,   1896. 


BOARD    OF    TRUSTEES. 

A.  W.  Carlson,  Edwin  Stratford,  David 
Evans,  Harriet  F.  Emerson  and  Martha 
Hughes  Cannon. 


UTAH    STATE    PRISON. 
Located  at  Salt  Lake  City. 


BOARD  OF  CORRECTIONS. 

Governor  Wells,  Thomas  Kearns,  Fran- 
cis Armstrong  and  M.  B.  Sowles.  Ward- 
en,   George   N.    Dow. 


treasurer. 


First  Legrislatnre   of      tlie      State      of 
Utah. 

The  first  legislature  of  the  State  of 
Utah  convened  at  the  capital,  Salt 
Lake  City,  January  6th,  1896.  The  ses- 
sion was  held  in  rooms  provided  for  the 
purpose  in  the  City  and  County  building. 
The  first  session  was  a  special  one  and 
was  assembled  pursuant  to  a  proclama- 
tion of  Governor  Heber  M.  Wells,  calling 
a  special  session  for  the  purpose  of  cre- 
ating a  statute  fixing  the  time  for  the 
convening  of  the  State  legislatures.  The 
session  lasted  two  days  when  it  was  ad- 
journed and  the  first  regular  session 
convened  on  the  same  day,  January  7th. 

George  M.  Cannon,  of  Salt  Lake,  was 
elected  president  of  the  senate,  and  Lillle 
R.  Pardee,  also  of  Salt  Lake,  was  elected 
secretary. 

Presley  Denny,  of  Beaver  county,  was 
elected  speaker  of  the  house  of  represen- 
tatives, and  William  M.  Thompson,  of 
Ogden,  chief  clerk.  The  same  officers 
served  during  both  special  and  regular  ses- 
sions. The  latter  continued  in  session 
the  full  ninety  days  allowed  by  the  con- 
stitution for  the  first  session.  Future 
sessions  can  only  sit  sixty  days  under 
the  constitution. 


THE   STATE   OF   UTAH. 


39 


STATE    SENATORS. 

The  senate  of  the  first  legislature  of  the  State    of   Utah    was   composed    of    twelve 
Republicans    and    six    Democrats,    as    follows: 


NAME. 


Residence. 


County. 


Allison,  jr.,  E.  M |G. 

Barnes,     J.     R |M. 

Booth,  H.  E |G. 

Oannon,   Geo.   M |M. 

Candland,     W.     D |M. 

Chambers,  R.  C |G. 

Chidester,    J.    T (M. 

Driscoll,    J.    P jG. 

Evans,    A.    J |M. 

Jones,  E.  B |G. 

McKay,  David jM. 

Miller,    Glen |G. 

Miller,     R.     G IM. 

Warner,    M.    M IG. 

Warrum,   jr.,    Noble.. |g. 

Snow,   E.   H |M. 

Sutherland,    Georg-e..  .|G. 
Zundel,    A [M. 


|Ogden    I  Weber    

iKaysville    )Davis    

JSalt  Lake  City Salt    Lake. 

I  Salt  Lake  City {Salt    Lake. 

jMt.    Pleasant jSanpete    ... 

|Park   City \..^ jSummit    ... 

jPanguitch    ..: ...I...  .jGarfield    ... 

[Eureka )Juab   

)Lehi  lUtah    

)Salt   Lake   City | Salt  Lake.. 

jHuntsville    | Weber    

)Salt    Lake   City ISalt   Lake 

jPrice    ICarbon..    .. 

jProvo    City jUtah    

Logan    (Cache 


I  4th 

I  3rd 

I  6th 

I  6th 

9th 

5th 

10th 

8th 

7th 

6th 

4th 

6th 

12th 

I  7th 

I  2nd 

;St.   George   | Washington  — |llth 

ISalt  Lake  City iSalt  Lake I  6th 

IWillard  City :Box    Elder i   1st 


"Mormon   or  Gentile. 


t^»i#i.&?**:-- 


H 


J.    F.    CHIDESTER. 


A.    J.    EVANS. 


E.    B.    JONES. 


DAVID    McKAY. 


THE   STATE  OF  UTAH. 

HOUSE    OF    REPRESENTATIVES, 


41 


The    house     of    representatives    of    the  first    State    legislature    was    composed    of 
forty-five   members,    thirty-one  Republicans  and  fourteen  Democrats,  as  follows: 


NAMES. 


s 

o 

o 

n 

0 

* 

• 

Residence 


County 
Represented. 


Andrus,    James |M.|D.i 

Beard,     George |M.|R. 

Bolitho,    James    M....|G.|R. 

BernhJsel,     J.     M iM.|D. 

Condon,     Dr.    A.     S...)G.|R. 

Curtis,     L.     A |G.|R. 

Critchlow.   E.    B |G.]R. 

Gushing,     H.     M |G.|R. 

Oazier,    A jM.JR. 

Clark,    E.    L |M.|R. 

Egan,    R.    E |M.iD., 

Fergusson,   Tom IG.jR. 

Ferguson,    J.    X jM.jR. 

Gibbs,     W.     H |M.|R. 

Gibson,     William )M.|D., 

Harris,    N.    J iM.|R. 

Heiner,    D |M.|D.  , 

Howard.    William |M.|D.! 

Lewis,   T.   D |M.|R 

Darsen,    M |M.|D. 

Dowry,  sr.,   J |M.|R.  i 

Demmon,    H |M.|D. 

Morrison,   S.   W |G.|R. 

Morrill,    Charles |G.|R. 

Monson,     Joseph |M.ID. 

Maughan,  P.  M |M.|D. 

Murdock,   J.   R |M.|D. 

Mansfield,  M.  W |M.1D. 

Nebeker,  W.  P |M.|R. 

Nebeker,    A IG.jD. 

Nye,  George  D jG.|R. 

Raddatz,    E.    J |G.|R. 

Robinson,   J.   E iM.|R.l 

Stevens,   T.   J 1M.|R.  ! 

Snedaker,   J.   F |M.|R. 

Shafer,    J.   H jG.  R. 

Sevy,    Thomas |M.  R.: 

Smoot,  A.  O |M.  D. 

Sorensen,   A.   P |M.  D.l 

Taylor,   A.   V |G.  R.i 

Thorne,  J.   T iM.  R. 

Thompson,  Peter IM.  R. 

Thompson,  Orvil  D...|M.1R. 

Wilson,   W.   W |M.|R. 

Denny,    P lG.|R.i 


St.     George Washington. 

Coalville    Summit. 

Richfield Sevier. 

Lewiston    Cache. 

Ogden    Weber. 

Ogden    Weber. 

Salt   Lake  City Salt   Lake. 

Salt  Lake  City Salt   Lake. 

Nephi    Juab. 

Parowan    Iron. 

Woodscross    Davis. 

Salt   Lake  City Salt  LaJce. 

Helper    Carbon. 

Portage   Box  Elder. 

Vernal  Uintah. 

Harrisville  Weber. 

Morgan    City i  Morgan. 

Huntington   !  Emerj'. 

Salt   Lake  City '  Salt  Lake. 

Spanish   Fork j  Utah 


Manti 

Payson    

Salt  Lake  City.. 

Junction    

Richmond    

Wei:?vine   

Chaileston   

Thurber   

Salt  Lake  City.. 

Laketown    

Salt   Laice   City. 

Stockton   

Kanab  

Ogden  

Mill  Creek  

Moab  

Panguitch    

Provo  City 

Moab   

Salt  Lake  City.. 
Pleasant  Grove 

Ephraim    

Scipio  

Sandy  

Beaver  City 


Sanpete. 

Utah. 

Salt  Lake. 

Piute. 

Cache. 

Cache. 

Wasatch. 

Wayne. 

Salt  Lake. 

Rich. 

Salt  Lake. 

Tooele. 

Kane. 

Weber. 

Salt  I^ke. 

Grand. 

Garfield. 

Utah. 

Grand. 

Salt   Lake. 

Utah. 

Sanpete. 

Millard. 

Salt  Lake. 

Beaver. 


*Mormon   or  Gentile. 

The  apportionment  under  the  constitution  is  one  representative  for  each 
county  except  five,  which  are  apportioned  aa  follows:  Cache  3,  Weber  4,  Salt 
Lake  10,   Utah  4.    Sanpete  2. 


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THE   STATE  OF   UTAH. 


SENATE   EMPLOYEES. 

Secretry— I^illie  R.  Pardee,  Salt  Lake 
county. 

Minute  Clerk— James  Clove,  Utah  coun- 
ty. 

Enrolling-  Clerk— F.  J.  Ilendershot,  We- 
ber county. 

Engrossing-  Clerk— O.  E.  Cary,  Utah 
county. 

Sergeant-at-Arms— Abner  Crane,  San- 
pete county. 

Doorkeeper— Peter  Thygerson,  Juab 
county. 

Messenger— Joseph  Cameron,  Garfield 
county. 

Watchman— W.  P.  St.  John,  Weber 
county. 

Janitor— Theodore  Chidester,  Garfield 
county. 

Committee  Clerks— M.  L.  Ritchie  and 
Emma  L.   Miaddison,   Salt  Lake  county. 

Page— M.  L,  Perry,  Salt  Lake  county. 


HOUSE    EMPLOYEES. 

William  M.  Thompson,  Chief  Clerk, 
Weber  county. 

Louis  Hyams,  Minute  Clerk,  Salt  Lake 
county. 

H.  W.  Wooley,  Engrossing  Clerk,  Tooele 
county. 

Joseph  Odell,  Docket  Clerk,  Cache  coun- 
ty. 

Miss  Henrietta  Clark  and  L.  C,  John- 
Bon,  Committee  Clerks,  Salt  Lake  county. 

W.  H.  Clark,  Sergeant-at-Arms,  Sevier 
county. 

J.  T.  Atkins,  Watchman,  Washington 
county. 

A.  L.  Toone,  Messenger,  Weber  county. 

Jesse  W.    Pox.   Page,    Sanpete  county. 

Charles  R.  Lyman,  Chaplain,  Iron  coun- 
ty. 

T.  R.  G.  Welch,  Janitor,  Morgan  coun- 
ty. 


RUIiEJS    OF    THE    SENATE. 

First     Legislature     of     the     State     of 
Utah. 

1.  A  majority  of  the  senate  shall  con- 
stitute, a  Quorum,  but  a  smaller  number 
may  adjourn  from  day  to  day,  or  for 
less  time  than  one  day,  and  compel  the 
attendance  of  absent  members. 

2.  The  senate  shall  keep  a  journal  of 
its  proceedings,  -which  shall  be  published 
at  the  close  of  the  session.  At  the  re- 
quest of  five  members,  the  yeas  and 
nays  shall  be  taken  on  any  question  and 
entered  on  the  journal. 

3.  Any  t-wo  members  of  the  senate  shall 
have  the  liberty  to  dissent  and  protest, 
in   respectful   language,    against   any   act 


or  resolution  which  they  may  think  in- 
jurious to  the  public  or  to  any  individual, 
and  have  the  reason  of  their  dissent  en- 
tered upon  the  journal;  provided,  that 
-when  objection  is  made  that  the  language 
is  not  respectful,  the  senate  may  refer 
the  same  back  to  the  senator  protesting. 

4.  The  senate  may  punish  its  members 
for  disorderly  behavior,  and  with  the  con- 
currence of  two-thirds  of  all  the  members 
elected  expel  a  member,  but  not  a  second 
time  for  the  same  cause;  and  the  reason 
for  such  expulsion  shall  be  entered  upon 
the  journal,  -with  the  names  of  the  mem- 
bers voting  on  the  question. 

5.  The  senate,  during  its  session,  may 
punish  by  imprisonment  any  person,  not 
a  member,  who  shall  be  guilty  of  disre- 
spect to  the  same,  by  any  disorderly  or 
contemptuous  behavior  in  its  presence; 
but  such  imprisonment  shall  not  at  any 
time  exceed  twenty-four  hours,  unless 
the  person  shall  persist  in  such  disorderly 
or  contemptuous  behavior. 

6.  The  doors  of  the  senate  shall  be  kept 
open,   except  while  in  executive  sessions. 

7.  The  senate  shall  not  adjourn  without 
the  consent  of  the  house  of  representa- 
tives for  more  than  three  days,  nor  to  any 
other  place  than  that  in  which  the  two 
houses   shall   ber  sitting. 

8.  On  "the  final  passage  of  all  bills,  the 
vote  shall  be  by  yeas  and  nays,  upon 
each  bill  separately,  and  shall  be  entered 
upon  the  journal;  and  no  bill  shall  be- 
come a  law  without  the  concurrence  of  a 
majority  of  all  the  senators  elected. 

9.  Every  bill  shall  be  read  three  times, 
but  the  first  and  second  reading  may  be 
on   the  same  day. 

10.  TTie  president,  or  in  his  absence  the 
president  pro  tempore,  or,  in  the  absence 
of  both,  any  senator  called  to  the  chair 
by  the  senate,  shall  take  the  chair  every 
day  precisely  at  the  hour  to  which  the 
senate  shall  have  adjourned:  shall  im- 
mediately call  the  members  to  order,  and 
on  the  appearance  of  a  quorum,  shall 
cause  the  journal  of  the  preceding  day  to 
be  read. 

11.  The  presiding  officer  shall  preserve 
decorum  and  order,  may  speak  to  points 
of  order,  in  preference  to  other  members, 
rising  from  his  seat  for  that  purpose, 
and  shall  decide  questions  of  order,  sub- 
ject to  an  appeal  to  the  senate  by  any 
two  members;  on  which  appeal  no  mem- 
ber shall  speak  more  than  once,  unless 
by  leave   of  the  senate. 

12.  He  shall  rise  to  put  a  question,  but 
may  state   it  sitting. 

13.  Questions  shall  be  put  in  the  fol- 
lowing form,  viz:  'As  many  as  are  in 
favor  of  (as  the  case  ma^  be)  say  aye," 
and  after  the  affirmative  vote  is  ex- 
pressed, 'As  many  as  are  opposed  say 
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the  vote,  or  a  division  be  called  for,  the 
senate  shall  divide;  those  in  the  affirma- 
tive shall  first  rise  from,  their  seats,  and 
afterwards   those  in   the   negative. 

14.  The  president  shall  examine  and  cor- 
rect the  journal  before  it  is  read;  he  shall 
have  the  general  direction  of  the  senate 
chamber;  he  shall  have  the  right  to  name 
any  member  to  perform  the  duties  of  the 
chair,  and  such  substitute  shall  be  vested 
with  all  the  powers  of  the  president 
during  the  time  he  shal  act  as  such,  but 
such  substitution  shall  not  extend  be- 
yond one  day. 

15.  In  case  of  any  disturbance  or  dis- 
orderly conduct  in  the  lobby  or  gallery, 
the  president  shall  have  power  to  order 
the  same  to  be  cleared. 

16.  The  president  shall  assign  to  the 
sergeant-at-arms,  his  assistants,  messen- 
ger, watchman  and  janitors  their  respec- 
tive duties   and   stations. 

DECORUM    AND    DEBATE. 

17.  When  any  member  is  about  to  speak 
or  deliver  any  matter  to  the  senate,  he 
shall  rise  from  his  seat  and  address 
himself  to  "Mr.  President,"  and  shall 
confine  himself  to  the  question  under  de- 
bate, and  avoid  personalities. 

18.  If  any  member,  in  speaking  (or 
atherwise)  transgresses  the  rules  of  the 
senate,  the  president  shall,  or  any  mem- 
ber may,  call  him  to  order,  in  which  case 
the  member  so  called  to  order  shall  sit 
down,  unless  permitted  to  explain;  and 
the  senate,  if  appealed  to,  shall  decide 
on  the  case  without  debate.  If  the  de- 
cision be  m  favor  of  the  member  called 
to  order,  he  shall  be  at  liberty  to  pro- 
ceed: if  otherwise,  and  the  case  require 
it,  he  shall  be  liable  to  the  censure  of 
the  senate. 

19.  If  any  member  be  called  to  order 
for  words  spoken  in  debatje,  the  person 
calling  him  to  order  shall  repeat  the 
words  excepted  to,  and  they  shall  be 
taken  down  by  the  secretary;  but  no 
member  shall  be  held  to  answer  or  be 
subject  to  the  censure  of  the  senate, 
for  words  spoken  in  debate,  if  any  mem- 
ber has  spoken  in  debate,  or  other  busi- 
ness has  intervened  after  the  words 
spoken  and  before  exceptions  tO'  them 
shall  have  been  taken. 

20.  If  two  or  more  members  rise  at  once, 
the  president  shall  name  the  member  who 
is  first  to  speak. 

21.  No  member  shall  speak  more  than 
twice  to  the  same  question,  nor  more 
than  once  until  every  member  choosing  to 
speak  shall  have  spoken,  without  the 
consent  of  the  senate. 

22.  While  the  presiaent  is  putting  a 
question,  or  addressing  the  senate,  no 
member  shall  walk  out  of  or  across  the 
room,  nor  in  such  case,  or  when  a  mem- 


ber is  speaking,  shall  enter  into  private 
discourse,  nor  when  a  member  is  speak- 
ing shall  pass  between  him  and  the  chair. 

23.  Every  member  who  shall  be  in  the 
senate  when  a  question  is  put,  shall  give 
his  vote,  unless  the  senate  shall  for  spe- 
cial reasons  excuse  him. 

24.  No  memiber  shall  be  permitted  to 
vote  on  any  question,  unless  within  the 
bar   before    the  vote    is   announced. 

25.  No  motion  shall  be  entertained  and 
debated  until  the  same  shall  be  seconded. 

26.  When  a  motion  is  made  and  sec- 
onded, it  shall  be  stated  by  the  president, 
or  being  in  writing,  shall  be  handed  to 
the  secretary  and  read  aloud  before  de- 
bate. 

27.  Every  motion  shall  be  reduced  to 
writing,  if  the  president  or  any  member 
desire  it. 

28.  When  the  yeas  and  nays  shall  be 
taken  on  any  question,  no  member  shall 
be  permitted  to  vote  or  to  change  his 
vote  after  the  decision  is  announced  from 
the  chair,  unless  by  the  two-thirds  vote 
of  senators  present  and  voting. 

29.  After  a  motion  is  stated  by  the  pres- 
ident, or  read  by  the  secretary,  it  shall 
be  deemed  in  the  possession  of  the  sen- 
ate, but  may  be  withdrawn  at  any  time 
by  the  unanimous  consent  of  the  senate, 
before  decision. 

30.  When  a  question  is  under  detoate  no 
motion  shall  be  received,   but: 

To  fix  the  time  tO'  which  to  adjourn. 

To    adjourn. 

To   call   the   house. 

To  lay  on  the  table. 

To  postpone  indefinitely. 

To  postpone  to  a  day  certain. 

To  commit  or   to   amend. 

Which  several  motions  shall  have  pre- 
cedence in  the  order  in  which  they  stand 
arranged. 

31.  A  motion  for  adjournment  shall  al- 
ways be  in  order,  except  when  the  roll 
is  being  called,  and  be  decided,  as  well 
as  the  motion  to  lay  on  the  table,  with- 
out debate. 

32.  No  motion 

To  postpone  to  a  day  certaini 

Or  indefinitely 

Or  to  commit 

Being  decided  in  the  negative  shall 
again  b©  allowed  on  the  same  day  at  the 
same   stage  of  the   bill  or  proposition. 

33.  A  motion  to  strike  out  the  enacting 
words  of  a  bill  shall  have  precedence  of 
a  motion  to  amend,  and,  if  carried,  shall 
be  deemed   equivalent   to   its  rejection. 

34.  When  a  blank  is  to  be  filled,  and 
different  sums  or  times  are  proposed,  the 
question  shall  first  be  put  on  the  largest 
sum  and  the  longest  time. 

35.  No  person  shall  be  permitted  to 
smoke  in  the  sp'^"*'^  chamber,  or  to  give 
any  sign  of  approbation  or  disapproba- 
tion while  the  senate  is  in  session. 


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E.   M.   ALLISON,    JR. 


W.    D.    CANDLAND. 


GLUIIGE    SUTIIERLAXD. 


H.    E.    BOOTH. 


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OFFTC-RS'    DUTIES. 

36.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  secretary 
to  keep  a  journal  in  which  he  shall  sea- 
sonably record  ihe  motions,  resolutions, 
rules  and  decisions  of  the  senate,  and  to 
do  and  perform  all  such  other  acts  apper- 
taining to  his  ofRce  as  may  be  required 
of  him  by  the  senate  or  its  presiding  offi- 
cer. 

37.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  sergeant- 
at-arms  lo  attend  the  senate  during  its 
sittings,  to  execute  the  command  of  the 
senate  from  time  to  time,  together  with 
all  such  process,  issued  by  order  of  the 
senate,  or  any  commictee  thereof,  which 
shall   be  signed   by  the  president. 

STANDING    COMMITTEES. 

38.  The  following  standing  committees 
shad  be  appointed  by  the  president: 

JuQiciary,    seven   members. 

Ways  and  Means,   seven  members. 

Public   Lands,    seven   members. 

State  Affairs,    seven   members. 

x^uucation,  seven  members. 

Irrigation  and  Agriculture,  seven  mem- 
bers. 

Live  Stock,   five  members. 

Labor,   seven  members. 

Elections,   five   members. 

Appropriations  and  Claims,  seven  mem- 
bers. 

Railroads,  seven  members. 

Mines  and  Minerals,  seven  members. 

Banks  and  Banking,  five  members. 

Counties  and  Municipal  Corporations, 
five   members. 

Federal  Relations,  five  members. 

Public  Institutions  and  Buildings,  seven 
members. 

Private  Corporations  and  Insurance, 
five  members. 

Public  Health,   three  members. 

Public  Printing,   three  members. 

Manufactures  and  Commerce,  five  mem- 
bers. 

Rules,  five  members. 

Engrossed  and  Enrolled  Bills,  three 
members. 

Apportionment,    five   members. 

Military   Affairs,    five  members. 

Highways  and   Bridges,   three  memoers. 

Fish  and  Game,    three  members. 

Land   Titles,   five   members. 

Tbe  following  named  committees  shall 
have  leave  to  report  at  any  time  on  the 
matters   stated,    viz: 

Committee  on  Rules,  on  rules,  join't 
rules   and   order   of  business. 

Committee  on  Engrossed  and  Enrolled 
Bills,   on   enrolled   bills. 

Committee  on  Printing,  on  all  matters 
of  printing  referred  to  it  for  use  of  the 
senate   and   two   houses. 

It  shall  always  be  in  order  to  call  up 
for  consideration  the  report  of  Commit- 
tee  an  Rules,   and  pending   the  consider- 


ation thereof  the  president  may  entertain 
one  motion  that  the  senate  adjourn,  and 
after  the  result  is  announced  he  shall  not 
entertain  any  other  dilatory  motion  until 
said  report  shail  have  been  fully  dis- 
posed of. 

No  committee  except  the  Committee  on 
Rules  shall  sit  during  the  sitting  of  the 
senate,  without  special  leave. 

PRACTICE. 

39.  All  resolutions  presented  to  the  sen- 
ate shall  lie  one  day  on  the  table. 

40.  If  the  question  in  debate  contains  sev- 
eral points,  any  member  may  have  the 
same  divided;  but  on  motion  to  strike  out 
and  insert,  it  shall  not  be  in  order  to 
move  for  a  division  of  the  question;  but 
the  rejection  of  a  motion  to  strike  out 
and  insert  one  proposition  shall  not  pre- 
vent a  motion  to  strike  out  and  insert  a 
different  proposition. 

4L  When  a  question  has  been  once  made 
and  carried  in  the  affirmative  or  negative, 
it  shail  be  in  order  for  a  member  of  the 
majority  to  move  for  a  reconsideration 
thereof;  or  give  notice  that  he  will  make 
such  motion  within  the  time  prescribed 
by  the  rules,  for  which  time  he  shall 
control  the  motion.  No  motion  for  re- 
consideration shall  be  in  order,  unless 
within  the  next  day  of  actual  session  of 
the  senate;  provided,  that  should  the 
member  giving  notice  of  a  motion  to  re- 
consider not  make  such  a  motion  within 
the  tisne  prescribed  by  the  rules,  any 
other  member  voting  with  the  majority 
may  make  such  motion  within  the  next 
succeeding  legislative  day.  Such  motion 
shall  take  precedence  of  all  other  ques- 
tions exceot  a  motion   to  adjourn. 

42.  *  bill  may  be  referred  to  a  commit- 
tee without  reading,  but  shall  be  read 
before  being  amended,  and  may  be 
amended  in  every  particular  on  second 
reading.  A  bill  read  once  and  referred 
shall  be  read  a  second  time  before  being 
amended. 

43.  Amendments  shall  be  in  order  at  the 
third  reading  of  a  bill,  resolution  or  mo- 
tion requiring  three  readings,  and  it  shall 
be  at  all  times  in  order,  before  the  final 
passage  of  such  bill,  resolution  or  mo- 
tion,   to    move    its   commitment. 

44.  Two  hundred  copies  of  every  bill, 
joint  resolution  and  memorial,  shall  be 
printed  when  referred,  unless  otherwise 
ordered.  The  printing  of  bills,  joint  reso- 
lutions and  memorials  shall  be  in  long 
primer  type,  or  small  pica  set  solid,  with- 
out spaces  between  the  lines,  and  the  lines 
shall  be  numbered.  The  pages  shall  be 
of  suitable  size  and  shall  have  margins 
two  inches  wide. 

45.  When  motions  are  made  for  refer- 
ence of  the  same  subject  to  a  select  com- 
mittee and  to  a  standing  committee,   the 


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question  of  reference  to  a  standing  com- 
mittee shall  be  put  first. 

46.  Any  five  senators  may  make  a  call 
of  the  senate  and  require  absent  senators 
to  be  sent  for.  but  a  call  of  the  senate 
cannot  be  made  after  the  voting  has  com- 
menced: and  a  call  of  the  senate  being 
ordered,  the  doors  shall  be  closed  and 
the  absentees  noted,  and  no  senator  per- 
mitted tO'  leave  the  room  until  the  report 
of  the  sergeant-at-arms  be  received  and 
acted  upon,  or  further  proceedings  in  the 
call  be  suspended,  or  the  senate  adjourn. 
Previous  to  the  reception  of  such  report, 
further  proceedings  in  the  call  shall  not 
be  suspended,  except  by  the  vote  of  two- 
thirds   of  the  senators  present, 

47.  No  amendment,  by  way  of  rider, 
shaJl  be  received  to  any  bill  on  its  third 
reading. 

48.  The  rules  of  parliamentary  practice 
comi)rised  in  Roberts'  Rules  of  Order 
shall  govern  the  senate  in  all  cases  to 
which  they  are  applicable  and  in  which 
they  are  not  inconsis*^"^  with  the  stand- 
ing rules   and   orders   of  the   senate. 

49-  A  motion  to  coimmit,  until  it  is  de- 
cided, shall  preclude  all  amendments  and 
debate  on  the  main  question,  and  a  mo- 
tio-n  to  postpone  indefinitely  or  to  a  day 
certain,  until  it  is  decided,  shall  preclude 
all  amendments  on  the  main  question. 

50.  Upon  a  motion  to  reconsider  the  vote 
on  the  final  passage  of  any  bill,  a  majori- 
ty of  all  the  members  elected  shall  be 
required  to  reconsider  the  same. 

51.  If  a  bill  shall  fail  to  pass  on  ac- 
count of  not  having  received  the  consti- 
tutional majority,  any  senator  having 
voted  in  the  negative  shall  have  a  right 
to  move  a  reconsideration. 

52.  No  motion  or  proposition  on  a  sub- 
jetct  different  from  "that  under  considera- 
tion shall  be  admitted  under  color  of 
amendment. 

53.  No  rule  of  the  senate  shall  be  al- 
tered, suspended  or  reconsidered,  without 
the  vote  of  two-thirds  of  the  members 
I>resent. 

54.  No  person,  except  members  of  the 
ho\ise  of  representatives  and  their  officers, 
heads  of  executive  departments  of  this 
s-tate,  chaplains,  judges  of  the  United 
States  courts,  and  supreme  and  district 
judges  of  this  state,  former  governors 
and  ex-members  of  the  Territorial  legis- 
lature and  the  mayor  and  members  of 
the  city  council  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and 
general  field  and  staff  officers  of  the  Na- 
tional Guard  of  Utah,  and  reporters  of 
the  press,  shall  be  admitted  to  the  floor 
of  the  senate  unless  by  leave  of  the  presi- 
dent, or  special  invitation  of  a  member. 

55.  The  daily  order  of  business  shall  be 
as  follows: 

1.  Roll  call. 

2.  Prayer  by  chaplain. 


3.  Reading  of  the  journal. 

4.  Presentation  of  petitions. 

5.  Reports   of  standing  committees. 

6.  Reports  of   select   committees. 

7.  Presentation  of  resolutions. 

8.  Introduction  of  bills. 

After  the  daily  order  of  business  shall 
have  passed  the  following  general  order 
of  business  shall  be  observed: 

1.  Reading  bills  of  the  senate  the  third 
time. 

2.  Reading  bills  of  the  senate  the  second 
time. 

3.  Reading  bills  of  the  senate  the  first 
time. 

4.  Reading  bills  from  the  house  of  rep- 
resentatives  the   third   time. 

5.  Reading  bills  from  the  house  of  rep- 
resentatives  the  second    time. 

6.  Reading  bills  from  the  house  of  rep- 
resentatives the  first  time. 

7.  Consideration  of  resolutions. 

The  item  of  unfinished  business  in 
which  the  senate  was  engaged  at  the 
last  preceding  adjournment  shall  have  the 
preference  in  the  general  order  of  busin- 
iness,  and  when  the  senate  shall  have 
passed  from  one  order  to  another  no  ac- 
tion shall  be  had  upon  the  orders  passed 
except  by  leave  of  the  senate,  and  to  give 
this  leave  two-thirds  of  the  senators  pres- 
ent  must  concur. 

Messages  from  the  house  of  representa- 
tives may  bo  received  at  any  time  except 
when  the  president  is  putting  the  ques- 
tion or  the  yeas  and  nays  are  being 
called,  and,  upon  motion,  may  be  con- 
sidered   at   any    time. 

56.  The  previous  question  shall  hot  be 
entertained  or  be  a  rule  of  practice  in  the 
senate. 

EXECUTIVE   COMMUNICATIONS  AND 
NOMINATIONS. 

57.  Messages  from  the  governor  and 
communications  from  state  officers  may 
be  received  at  any  time,  except  when  the 
president  is  putting  the  question,  or  the 
yeas  and  nays  are  being  called,  and  upon 
motion  may  be  considered  at  any  time. 
The  consideration  of  executive  business 
shall  talce  place  with  closed  doors. 

58.  Nominations  may  be  referred  to  a 
standing  or  select  committee.  On  consid- 
ering nominations  the  president  should 
put  the  following  question:  "Does  the 
senate  advise  and  consent  to  the  nomina- 
tion just  made?"  While  any  nomination 
remains  with  the  senate  it  shall  be  in  or- 
der to  reconsider  any  vote  taken  thereon. 

HOUR    OF    MEETING. 

59.  Until  otherwise  ordered,  the  regular 
hour  of  meeting  of  the  senate  shall  be  2 
o'clock  p.   m.   daily,   Sundays  excepted. 


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PRESIDENT  PRO  TEM. 

60.  The  senate  shall  eleot  a  president  pro 
tempore  for  the  session,  who  shall  possess 
all  the  powers  and  prerogatives  of  the 
president  of  the  senate  in  the  absence  of 
the  pref=iident. 


STANDING     COMMITTEES. 

Judiciary — George  Sutherland,  chair- 
man, and  Hiram  E.  Booth,  J.  F.  Chides- 
ter,  A.  J.  Evans,  E.  H.  Snow,  E.  M.  Alli- 
son, Jr.,  M.  M.  Warner. 

Ways  and  Means— H.  E.  Booth,  chair- 
man, and  W.  D.  Candland,  J.  R.  Barnes, 
R.  C.  Chambers,  J.  F.  Chidester,  E.  H. 
Snow,  Glen  Miller. 

Public  Lands — John  F.  Chidester,  chair- 
man, and  W.  D.  Candland,  R.  G.  Miller, 
A.  Zundell,  E.  H.  Snow,  R.  C.  Chambers, 
A.  J.   Evans. 

State  Affairs— T-I.  E.  Booth,  chairman, 
and   Elmer  B.  Jones,   George  Sutherland, 

D.  McKay,    Noble    Warrum,    Jr.,    A.    J. 
Evans,  M.  M.  Warner. 

Education— E.  M.  Allison.  Jr.,  chairman, 
and  J.  F.  Chidester,  J.  P.  Driscoll,  E,  H. 
Snow,  George  Sutherland,  A.  J.  Evans, 
J.  R.  Barnes. 

Irrigation  and  Agriculture — David  Mc- 
Kay, chairman,  and  E.  M.  Allison,  jr.,  J. 
R  Barnes,  R.  G.  Miller,  A.  J.  Evans,  E. 
H.  Snow,  A.   Zundell. 

Live  Stock— R.  G.  Miller,  chairman,  and 
W.  D.  Candland,  A.  Zundell,  J.  R.  Barnes, 

E.  H.   Snow. 

Labor— Glen  Miller,  chairman,  and  H.  E. 
Booth.  E.  M.  Allison,  jr.,  George  Suther- 
land, R.  C.  Chambers,  A.  J.  Evans,  M.  M. 
Warner. 

Elections — J.  F.  Chidester,  chairman, 
and  No'ble  Warrum,  Jr.,  E.  H.  Snow,  A. 
Zundell.  J.  P.  Driscoll. 

Appropriations  and  Claims — W.  D. 
Candland,  chairman,  and  Glen  Miller,  J. 
R.  Barnes,  R.  C.  Chambers,  E.  H.  Snow, 
H.    E.   Booth,    David   McKay. 

Railroads— Glen  Miller,  chairman,  and 
R.  C.  Chambers,  A.  J.  Evans,  E.  B.  Jones, 
ii<.  H.  Snow,  George  Sutherland,  A.  Zun- 
dell. 

Mines  and  Minerals— R.  C.  Chambers, 
chairman,  and  James  P.  Driscoll,  Glen 
Miller,  M.  M.  Warner,  A.  J.  Evans,  J.  R. 
Barnes,  David  McKay. 

Banks  and  Banking— John  R.  Barnes, 
chairman,  and  Noble  Warrtim,  Jr.,  W.  D. 
Candland,  E.  M.  Allison,  Jr.,  David  Mc- 
Kay. 

Counties  and  Municipal  Corporations- 
James  P.  Driscoll,  chairman,  and  George 
Sutherland,  R.  G.  Miller,  A.  J.  Evans, 
Noble  Warrum,  Jr. 

Federal  Relations— E.  M.  Allison,  Jr., 
chairman,  and  W.  E.  Candland,  M.  M. 
Warner,  Noble  Warrum,  Jr.,  James  P. 
Driscoll. 


Purblic  Institutions  and  Buildings— Hi- 
rami  E.  Booth,  chairman,  and  W.  D. 
Candland,  R.  C.  Chambers,  James  P. 
Driscoll,  E.  H.  Snow. 

Private  Corporations  and  Insurance- 
Elmer  B.  Jones,  chairman,  and  J.  R. 
Barnes,  R.  C.  Chambers,  George  Suther- 
land, J.  F.  Chidester. 

Public  Health— M.  M.  Warner,  chair- 
man, and  Elmer  B.  Jones,  Abraham  Zun- 
dell. 

Public  Printing— Abraham  Zundell, 
chairman,  and  Glen  Miller,  M.  M.  War- 
ner. 

Manufactures  and  Commerce^W.  D. 
Candland,  chairman,  and  M.  M.  Warner, 
Noble  Warrum.  Jr.,  R.  G.  Miller,  E.  M. 
Allison,  Jr. 

Rules— Hiram  E.  Booth,  chairman,  and 
George  Sutherland,  J.  F.  Chidester,  E.  H. 
Snow,  R.  C.  Chamfbers. 

Engrossed  and  Enrolled  Bills— George 
Sutherland,  chairman,  and  A.  J.  Evans, 
Glen  Miller. 

Apportionment— E.  H.  Snow,  chairman, 
and  J.  F.  Chidester,  R.  G.  Miller,  E.  B. 
Jones,  J.   P.   Driscoll. 

Military  Affairs— Noble  Warrum,  Jr., 
chairman,  and  R.  G.  Miller,  David  Mc- 
Kay, George  Sutherland,  E.  M.  Allison, 
Jr. 

Highways  and  Bridges— R.  G.  Miller, 
chairman,  and  W.  D.  Candland,  E,  H. 
Snow  . 

Pish  and  Game— A.  J.  Evans,  chairman, 
and  George  Sutherland,  A.  Zundell. 

Land  Titles— Glen  Miller,  chaiman,  and 
E  H.  Snow,  E.  M.  Allison,  Jr.,  M.  M. 
Warner,  J.  F.  Chidester. 


RUIZES    OF   THE    HOUSE    OP    REPItE- 
SENTATIVES. 


First     Legislature     of    tlie     State     of 
Utah. 

POWERS   AND   DUTIES   OF   THE 
SPEAKER. 

Rule  1.— The  speaker,  or  in  case  of  his 
absence,  the  chief  clerk  shall  take  the 
chair  on  every  legislative  day,  precisely 
at  the  hour  to  which  the  house  shall 
have  adjourned  at  the  last  sitting,  im- 
mediately call  the  members  to  order, 
and  on  the  appearance  of  a  quorum,  after 
prayer  by  the  chaplain,  cause  the  Journal 
of  the  proceedings  of  the  last  day's  sit- 
tings to  be  read,  having  previously  ex- 
amined and  approved  the  same. 

Rule  2.— He  shall  preserve  order  and  de- 
corum; may  speak  once  to  points  of  or- 
der m  preference  to  other  members,  rising 
from  his  seat  for  that  purpose,  and  shall 
decide  questions  of  order,  subject  to 
an  appeal  to  the  house  by  any  two  mem- 


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bers,  on  which  appeal  no  member  shall 
speak  more  than  once,  unless  by  leave  of 
the  house. 

Rule  3.— He  shall  appoint  all  commit- 
tees, except  where  the  house  shall  other- 
wise order. 

Rule  4.— All  acts,  addresses,  memorials 
and  joint  resolutions  sliall  be  signed  by 
the  speaJter,  and  all  writs,  warrants  and 
subpoenas,  issued  by  order  of  the  house, 
shall  be  under  his  hand,  attested  by  the 
clerk. 

Rule  5.— He  shall  distinctly  put  all  ques- 
tions in  this  form,  to-wit:  Those  who 
are  in  favor  of  (as  the  question  may  be) 
say  "Aye,"  and  after  the  affirmative  voice 
is  expressed,  Those  who  are  opposed,  say 
"No."  If  the  speaker  doubt,  or  a  division 
be  called  for,  the  house  shall  divide; 
those  voting-  in  the  affirmative  shall  first 
rise  from  their  seats;  afterwards  those 
in  the  negative.  No  member  shall  be 
allowed  to  explain  or  change  his  vote 
after  the  vote  is  announced  by  the 
speaker. 

Rule  6— He  shall  not  be  required  to 
vote  in  ordinary  legisla-tive  proceedings, 
except  where  the  vote  is  a  tie  vote  and 
his  vote  would  be  decisive,  or  where 
the  house  is  engaged  in  voting  by  ballot; 
and  in  all  cases  of  a  tie  vote  the  ques- 
tion  shall   be   lost. 

Rule  7.— He  shall  have  the  right  to 
name  any  member  to  perform  the  duties 
of  the  chair,  but  such  substitution  shall 
not  extend  beyond  an  adjournment.  Pro- 
vided, however,  that  in  case  of  his  ill- 
ness, he  may  make  such  appointment  for 
a  period  not  exceeding  three  days,  with 
the  approval  of  the  house  at  the  time 
the  same  is  made;  and  in  his  absence 
and  omission  to  make  such  appointment 
the  house  shall  proceed  to  elect  a  speaker 
pro  tempore  to  act  during  his  absence. 

ORDER    OF    BUSINESS. 

Rule  8— The  order  of  business  shall  be 
as  follows: 

1.— Roll  call. 

2.— Prayer  by  the  chaplain. 

3.— Reading  and  approval  of  the  Journal 

4.— Unfinished     business. 

5.— Presentation  of  petitions  and  claims. 

6.— Reports  of  standing  committees. 

7.— Reports     of     select     committees. 

8.— Consideration    of    committee    reports, 

9.— Introduction  and  first  reading  of  bills 

and  joint  resolutions. 
10.— Special  order  of  the  day  not  fixed  for 

an    hour    certain. 
11.— Motions,   resolutions  and  memorials. 
12.— Second   reading   of   bills. 
13.— Third  reading  of  bills. 
14.— Miscellaneous    business. 


RIGHTS    AND    DUTIES    OF    MEMBERS. 

Rule  9.— When  any  member  desires  to 
speak,  or  deliver  any  matter  to  the 
house,  he  shall  rise  and  respectfully  ad- 
dress himself  to  Mr.  Speaker,  and  being 
recognized,  may  address  the  house  from 
his  place,  and  shall  confine  himself  to 
the  question  on  debate,  avoiding  personali- 
ties. 

Rule  10 — When  two  or  more  members 
arise  at  once,  the  speaker  shall  name  the 
member  who   is  first  to   speak. 

Rule  11.— If  any  member,  in  speaking  or 
otherwise,  transgress  the  rules  of  the 
house,  the  speaker  shall,  «or  any  mem- 
ber may,  call  him  to  order,  in  which 
case  he  shall  immediately  sit  down,  when 
the  speaker  shall  decide  the  point  of  order 
without  debate,  subject  to  appeal  as  in 
other  cases. 

Rule  12.— No  member  shall  speak  more 
than  once  to  the  same  question,  without 
leave  of  the  house,  unless  he  be  the  mover 
of  the  matter  pending,  or  chairman  of  the 
committee  who  reported  the  same,  in 
which  case  he  shall  be  privileged  to  close 
the  debate,  having  first  given  notice  of  his 
intention  so  to  do. 

Rule  13.— While  the  speaker  is  putting  a 
question  or  addressing  the  house,  no  mem- 
ber shall  walk  out  or  across  the  hall,  nor 
when  a  member  is  speaking,  pass  between 
him  and  the  chair,  and  during  the  session 
of  the  house  no  member  shall  wear  his 
hat,  or  remain  by  the  Clerk's  desk  during 
the  call  of  the  roll  or  tne  counting  of  the 
votes. 

Rule  14.— Every  member  who  shall  be 
within  the  bar  of  the  house  when  a  ques- 
tion is  stated  from  the  chair,  shall  vote 
thereon,  unless  he  be  directly  interested 
in  the  question  or  excused  by  the  house, 
and  no  member  shall  be  obliged  to  vote  on 
any  question,  unless  he  be  within  the  bar 
when  the  question  is  so  stated. 

Rule  15.— A  majority  of  the  members 
elected  to  the  house  shall  constitute  a 
quorum,  but  a  smaller  number  may  ad- 
journ from  day  to  day  and  any  fifteen 
members  are  hereby  authorized  to  com- 
pel 'he  attendance  of  absent  rrembers 

Rule  16.— Upon  calls  of  the  house  and  in 
taking  the  ayes  and  nays  upon  any  ques- 
tion, the  names  of  the  members  shall  be 
called  alphabetically,  with  Mr.  Speaker 
last. 

Rule  17.— Every  paper  presented  by  any 
member  for  the  consideration  of  the 
house  shall  bear  his  signature,  and  be 
accompanied  by  a  brief  statement  of  its 
subject,  and  if  it  be  a  report  of  a  com- 
mittee, with  the  name,  also,  of  that  com- 
mittee. 

Rule  18.— No  person  shall  be  permitted  to 
smoke  in  the  house  of  representatives,  or 


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to   give   any   sign    of   approbation   or   dis- 
approbation while  the  house  is  in  session. 

MOTIONS  AND  RESOLUTIONS. 

Rule  19.— No  motion  shall  be  debated  un- 
til the  same  is  seconded  and  distinctly  an- 
nounced by  the  speaker,  and  it  shall  be  re- 
duced to  writing  if  desired  by  the  speaker, 
and  be  read  by  the  clerk  before  the  same 
shall  be  debated.  A  motion  may  be  with- 
drawn by  leave  of  the  house  at  any  time 
before  amendment  or  decision. 

Rule  20.— A  motion  to  adjourn,  or  to 
fix  the  time  to  which  the  house  will  ad- 
journ, shall  always  be  in  order,  except 
when  a  member  has  the  floor  for  any 
other  purpose,  or  when  a  vote  is  being 
taken.  The  clerk  shall  enter  on  the  Jour- 
nal the  name  of  any  member  moving 
an  adjournment,  and  also  the  hour  at 
which  the  house  adjourned.  After  a  mo- 
tion to  adjourn  or  fix  the  time  (to  which 
the  house  shall  adjourn  has  been  nega- 
tived, no  like  motion  shall  be  made  until 
other  business  has   intervened. 

Rule  21. — When  a  question  is  under  de- 
bate or  before  the  house  no  motion  shall 
be  received  but: 

1.— To    adjourn. 

2.— To   lay    on    the    table. 

3.— For    the   previous   question. 

4.— To  postpone  to  a  certain  day. 

5. — To  commit. 

6.— To  amend. 

7.— To  postpone   indefinitely. 

Which  several  motions  shall  have  prece- 
dence in  the  order  in  which  they  are 
named,  but  the  first  three  shall  be  de- 
cided without  debate,  and  no  motion  to 
postpone  to  a  certain  day,  ito  commit, 
or  to  postpone  indefinitely,  being  decided 
shall  again  be  allowed  on  the  same  day 
and  at  the  same  stage  of  the  proceed- 
ings. 

Rule  22.— A  motion  to  strike  out  the  en- 
acting clause  of  a  bill  or  resolution,  shall 
have  precedence  of  a  motion  to  amend, 
and,  if  carried,  shall  be  considered  equiva- 
lent to  its  rejection. 

Rule  23.— The  previous  question  shall  be 
in  this  form:  "Shall  the  question  be  now 
put?"  and  its  effect,  when  sustained  by 
a  majority  of  the  members  present,  shall 
be  to  put  an  end  to  all  debate,  and  bring 
the  house  to  a  vote  on  the  question  or 
questions  before  it.  Provided,  that  when 
a  motion  to  amend  or  to  commit  is  pend- 
ing, its  effect  shall  be  to  cut  off  debate, 
and  bring  the  house  to  a  vote  on  the  mo- 
tion to  amend  or  commit  only,  and  not 
upon  the  question  to  be  amended  or  com- 
mitted. All  incidental  questions  of  order 
arising  after  a  motion  is  made  for  the 
previous  question,  and  pending  such  mo- 
tion or  previous  ques'tion,  shall  be  decided 


(whether  on  appeal  or  otherwise)  without 
debate.  The  previous  question  shall  only 
be  put  when  demanded  by  three  members. 

Rule  24.— When  a  question  Is  postponed 
indefinitely  the  same  shall  not  again  be 
introduced  during  the  session 

Rule  25.— On  the  day  succeeding  that 
on  which  a  final  vote  on  any  bill  or  joint 
resoluition  has  been  taken,  said  vote 
may  be  reconsidered  on  the  motion  of  any 
member;  provided,  notice  of  intention  to 
move  such  reconsideration  shall  have  been 
given  on  the  day  on  which  such  final  vote 
was  taken,  by  a  member  voting  with  the 
majority,  except  as  provided  in  Rule  29; 
and  it  shall  not  be  in  order  for  /any  mem- 
ber to  move  a  reconsideration  on  the  day 
on  which  such  final  vote  was  ♦aken.  Such 
motion  of  reconsideration  shall  have  pre- 
cedence over  every  other  motion,  except  a 
motion  to  adjourn.  No  notice  of  recon- 
sideration shall  be  in  order  on  the  day 
preceding  the  last  day  of  the  session,  nor 
shall  there  be  any  reconsideration  of  a 
vote  on  a  motion  to  indefinitely  postpone. 
Votes  on  any  other  business  of  the  house 
may  be  reconsidered  at  any  time  on  the 
same  day  upon  motion  made  by  a  member 
who  voted  with  the  majority. 

Rule  26.— Upon  a  motion  to  reconsider 
the  vote  on  the  final  passage  of  any  bill, 
a  majority  of  all  the  members  elected  shall 
be  required  to  reconsider  the  same. 

Rule  27.— No  motion  or  proposition  on 
a  subject  different  from  that  under  con- 
sideration shall  be  admitted  under  color 
of  amendment. 

Rule  28.— No  amendment,  by  way  of 
rider,  shall  be  received  to  any  bill  on  its 
third  reading. 

Rule  29.— If  a  bill  should  fail  to  pass  on 
account  of  not  having  received  the  con- 
stitutional majority  when  so  required,  any 
representative  having  voted  in  the  nega- 
tive shall  have  a  right  tO'  move  a  recon- 
sideration. 

Rule  30.— A  substitute  shall  be  deemed 
and  held  to  be  an  amendment,  and  be 
treated  in  all  respects  as  such. 

Rule  31.— Any  rule  of  the  house  may  be 
altered  or  amended  by  a  vote  of  two- 
thirds  of  the  members  elect,  or  may  be 
suspended  by  two-thirds'  vote  of  mem- 
bers present. 

Rule  32.— When  a  blank  is  to  be  filled, 
and  different  sums  or  times  are  proposed, 
the  question  shall  first  be  put  on  the 
largest  sum  and  the  longest  time. 

Rule  33.— At  the  request  of  five  members 
the  ayes  and  nays  shall  be  taken  on  any 
question  and   entered  on   the  Journal. 

Rule  34.— Every  bill  or  joint  resolution 
shall  receive  three  readings  previous  to 
its  passage.  The  first  and  second  read- 
ings may  be  on  the  same  day  unless  ob- 


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jection  be  made  to  the  bill.  The  third 
reading  shall  be  made  on  a  subsequent 
day.  The  speaker  shall  give  notice  at 
each  reading,  whether  it  be  the  first, 
second  or  third  reading.  The  first  read- 
ing of  a  bill  shall  be  for  information,  ajid 
if  any  opposition  be  made  to  it  the  ques- 
tion sihall  be:  "Shall  this  bill  be  re- 
jected?" If  the  question  to  reject  be 
negatived,  the  bill  shall  then  take  the 
usual  course.  No  bill  or  joint  resolution 
shall  be  amended  or  committed  until 
tw^ice  read.  Whenever  a  bill  or  joint  reso- 
lution or  memorial  has  been  considered  in 
committee  of  the  whole  house,  and  a  re- 
port of  said  committee  adopted,  no  amend- 
ment to  such  bill  or  joint  resolution  or 
memorial  shall  be  permitted  on  the  third 
reading. 

Rule  35.— The  title  of  every  bill  .and  joint 
or  concurrent  resolution  shall  express  the 
subject  to  which  the  same  relates;  and  if 
the  bill  proposes  any  amendment  to  exist- 
ing laws,  the  title  shall  also  contain  the 
sections  and  the  chapter  of  the  law  which 
the  bill  proposes  to  amend. 

Rule  36.— No  appropriation  of  money, 
by  bill  or  otherwise,  belonging  to  the 
State  treasury,  shall  be  made  for  any 
claim  or  purpose  whatever,  until  the  same 
shall  have  been  referred  to  and  reported 
on    by    a   committee    of    the   house. 

Rule  37.— On  the  final  passage  of  every 
bill  or  joint  resolution  the  vote  shall  be 
taken  by  ayes  and  nays,  and  entered  upon 
the  Journal,  and  no  bill  or  joint  resolu- 
tion shall  be  declared  passed  unless  a  mo- 
jority  of  all  the  members  elected  to  thb 
house  shall  have  voted  in  favor  of  the 
passage   of   the   same. 

Rule  38.— Two  hundred  copies  of  every 
bill,  joint  resolution  and  memorial  shall 
be  printed  when  referred,  unless  other- 
wise ordered,  and  copies  thereof  dis- 
tributed to  the  members  of  the  house. 
The  printing  of  bills,  joint  resolutions  and 
memorials  shall  be  in  long  primer  type, 
or  small  pica,  set  solid,  without  spaces  be- 
tween the  lines,  and  the  lines  shall  be 
numbered.  The  pages  shall  be  of  suitable 
size  and  shall  have  margins  two  inches 
wide. 

Rule  39.— Whenever  a  bill  or  joint  reso- 
lution has  been  referred  to  the  Committee 
on  Claims  and  Public  Accounts  and  favor- 
ably reported  by  such  committee,  and 
such  report  adopted  by  the  house,  it  shall 
then  be  referred  to  the  Committee  on 
Appropria  tions. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

Rule  40.— No  person,  except  members  of 
the  senate  and  their  officers,  heads  of  exe- 
cutive department  of  this  State,  chaplains, 
judges  of  the  United  States  courts  and  su- 
preme   and    district   judges    of    this    State, 


former  governors  and  ex-members  of  the 
Territorial  legislature,  and  the  mayor  and 
members  of  the  city  council  of  Salt  Lake 
City,  and  general  field  and  staff  officers 
of  the  National  Guard  of  Utah,  members 
of  the  Constitutional  Convention,  and  re- 
porters of  the  press,  shall  be  admitted 
to  the  floor  of  the  house,  unless  by  leave 
of  the  speaker,  or  on  special  invitation  of 
a  member. 

Rule  41.— The  rules  of  partiamentary 
practice,  comprised  in  Roberts'  Rules  of 
Order,  shall  govern  in  all  cases  in  which 
they  are  not  inconsistent  with  the  stand- 
ing rules  and  orders  of  the  house. 

Rule  42.— On  all  appeals  from  the  de- 
cision of  the  speaker,  the  question  shall 
be:  "Shall  the  decision  of  the  speaker 
stand   as   the  judgment   of   the    house?" 

Rule  43.— Messages  from  the  governor. 
State  officers,  and  from  the  senate,  may 
be  considered  at  any  time. 

Rule  44.— The  Committee  on  Printing 
siiall  examin8»and  report  upon  all  accounts 
for  printing  for  the  information  of  the 
house  and  secretary  of  State,  from  time 
to  time,  as  the  house  may  direct,  or  the 
secretary  request. 

Rule  45.— All  joint  resolutions  and  mem- 
orials shall  be  treated  in  all  respects  as 
bills. 

Rule  46.— The  janitor,  watchman  and 
messenger  of  the  house  shall  be  under  the 
supervision  of  the  seargent-at-arms;  the 
sergeant-at-arms  shall  have  charge 
of  the  house  chamber  and  committee 
room.  He  shall  preserve  order  in  the 
lobby,  guard  the  floor  from  intruders,  and 
announce  to  the  speaker  the  presence  of 
messengers  bearing  official  communica- 
tions from  the  governor,  senate  or  sec- 
retary of  State. 

Rule  47.— Until  otherwise  ordered,  the 
regular  meeting  of  the  house  shall  be  at 
2   o'clock   p.    m.    daily,    Sundays   excepted. 

Rule  48.— The  house  shall  keep  a  journal 
of  its  proceedings,  which  shall  be  publish- 
ed at  the  close  of  the  session. 

Rule  49.— In  case  of  a  contest  of  the 
right  of  a  member  to  hold  his  seat  in  the 
house,  the  contest  shall  be  referred  to  the 
Committee  on  Elections  for  the  purpose 
of  securing  the  evidence  in  such  case;  and 
when  such  evidence  is  obtained,  said  com- 
mittee shall  consider  the  same,  report  its 
findings  thereon,  and  make  its  recom- 
mendations to  the  house. 

STANDING  COMMITTEES. 

Rule  50.— The  standing  committee  of  the 
house  shall  be  ais  follows: 

1.  A  Committee  on  Elections  to  con- 
sist of  seven   members. 

2.  A  Committee  on  Judiciary  to  consist 
of   nine    members. 


PETER     THOMPSON. 


A.    V.    TAYLOR. 


L.    A.    CURTIS. 


R.   E.   EGAN. 


THE   STATE   OF   UTAH. 


53 


3.  A  Committee  on  Claims  and  Public 
Accounts  to  consist  of  nine  members. 

4.  A  Committee  on  AppropTiaticns  to 
consist  of  nine  members. 

5.  A  Committee  on  Ways  and  Means 
to  consist  of  nine  members. 

6.  A  Committee  on  Counties  to  cooislst 
of   nine   members. 

7.  A  Committee  on  Hig-hways  and 
Bridges   to   consist  of  seven   members. 

8.  A  Committee  on  Education  to^  con- 
sist   of   nine    members. 

9.  A  Committee  on  Agriculture  and  Ir- 
rigiation  to  consist  of  nine  members. 

10.  A  Committee  on  Manufacture  and 
Commerce  to  consist  of  seven  members. 

11.  A  Committee  on  Militia  to  consist 
of  seven  members. 

12.  A  Committee  on  Penitentiary  and 
Reform  School  to  consist  of  seven  mem- 
bers. .1:^ 

«  ]3.     A  Committee  on  Live  Stock  tO'  con- 
sist  of   nine   members. 

14.  A  Committee  on  Fish  and  Game 
to   consist   of   five   members. 

15.  A  Committee  on  Private  Corpora- 
tions to  consist  of  seven  members. 

16.  A  Committee  on  Municipal  Corpor- 
ations   to    consist    of    seven    members. 

17.  A  Committee  on  Asylum  for  the  In- 
sane to  consist  of  seven  members. 

18.  A  Committee  on  Public  Health  to 
consist    of    five   members. 

19.  A  Committee  on  Rules  to  consist  of 
five  members. 

20.  A  Committee  on  Contingent  Expen- 
ses to  consist  of  five  members. 

21.  A  Committee  on  Statistics  to  con- 
sist of  five  members. 

22.  A  Committee  on  Railroads  and  Com- 
mon Carriers  to  consist  of  seven  mem- 
bers. !  f 

23.  A  Committee  on  Public  Lands  to 
consist   of   nine   members. 

24.  A  Committee  on  Federal  Relations 
to  consist  of  five  members. 

25.  A  Committee  on  Labor  to  consist  of 
seven    members. 

26.  A  Committee  on  Mines  sund  Mining  to 
consist  of  nine  members. 

27.  A  Committee  on  Capital  and  Capi- 
tal Grounds  to  consist  of  five  members. 

Also  the  following  joint  standing-  com- 
mittees, viz: 

28.  A  committee  on  Public  Printing-  to 
consist  of  five   members. 

29.  A  Committee  on  Territorial  Library 
to    consist    of    five    members. 

30.  A  Committee  on  Memorials  to-  Con- 
gress to  consist  of  five  members. 

31.  A  Committee  on  Engrossment  tO' 
consist  of  three  members. 

32.  A  Committee  on  Enrollment  to  con- 
sist of  three  members. 

Rule  51.— The  first  named  member  of 
each  committee  shall  be  the  chairman, 
and   in   his  absence,   or  being  eoiicused  by 


the  house,  the  next  named  member,  and 
so  on,  as  often  as  the  case  shall  happen, 
unless  the  committee,  by  a  majority  of  its 
number,    elect   a   chairman. 

Rule  52.— The  house  shall  not  adjourn 
without  the  consent  of  the  senate  for  more 
than  three  days,  nor  to  any  other  place 
than  that  in  which  the  two  houses  shall 
be  sitting. 

DUTIES  OF  CLERK. 

Rule  53.— It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
clerk  to  keep  a  correct  journal  of  each 
day's  proceedings,  and  furnish  a  true  copy 
thereof  to  the  Public  Printer,  and  when 
the  same  is  printed,  cause  a  copy  to 
be  placed  upon  the  desk  of  the  speaker 
and  of  each  member. 

Rule  54.— The  clerk  shall  make  a  list  of 
all  bills,  joint  resolutions  and  memorials 
introduced,  numbering  each  in  the  order 
of  date  received,  and  enter  on  said  list 
the  various  proceedingrs  had  thereon.  He 
shall  also  keep  a  similar  and  separate  list 
of  bills,  resolutions  and  memorials  re- 
ceived from  the  senate.  He  shall  poet 
daily  on  the  bulletin  of  the  house  under 
appropriate  heads  the  general  and  special 
orders  and  business  for  the  day. 


STAXDING      COMMITTEES       OF     THE 
HOUSE    OF   REPRESENTATIVES. 

COMMITTEE  ON  RULES. 

A.  V.  Taylor,  chairman;  L.  A.  Curtis, 
J.  M.  Bolitho,  Joseph  Monson,  Hyrum 
Lemmon. 

COMMITTEE    ON   ELECTIONS. 

T.  D.  Lewis,  chairman;  A.  S.  Condon, 
Thos.  Sevy,  J.  M.  Bernheisel,  R.  E.  Eg-an, 
M.   W.  Mansfield,  Geo.  L.  Nye. 

COMMITTEE    ON    JUDICIARY. 

E.  B.  Critchlow,  chairman;  Greo.  L.  Nye, 
Tom  Ferg-usson,  T.  D.  Lewis,  J.  X.  Fer- 
guson, Aquila  Nebeker,  N.  J.  Harris, 
Peter   M.   Maugrhan,    Wm,   Howard. 

COMMITTEE  ON  CLAIMS  AND  PUBLIC 
ACCOUNTS. 

S.  W.  Morrison,  chairman;  T.  J.  Stevens, 
W.     W.     Wilson,    J.    E.    Robinson,    Peter 
Thompson,    James   Andrus,    Joseph    Mon- 
son, A.  O.  Smoot,  and  A.  P.  Sorenson. 
COMMITTEE      ON      APPROPRIi^TTON«5. 

Tom  Fergusson,  chairman;  W.  W.   Wil- 
son, T.  J.  Stevens,  John  Lowry,  A.  Cazier, 
William  Gibson,  M.  Larsen,  Wm.  Howard, 
and.  James  Andrus. 
COMMITTEE    ON    WAYS   AND    MEANS. 

J.  M.  Bolitho,  chairman;  O.  Thompson, 
J.  T.  Thorne,  E.  L.  Clark,  H.  M.  Cushing, 
W.  H.  Gibbs,  J.  R.  Murdock,  M.  W.  Mane- 
field,  J.  M.  Bernheisel. 


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THE   STATE   OF   UTAH. 


COMMITTEE    ON    COUNTIES. 

Charles  Morrill,  chairman;  W.  P.  Nebek- 
er,  E.  L.  Clark,  Geo.  Beard,  Peter  M. 
Maughan,  J.  R.  Murdock,  Wm.  Howard, 
Orvil  Thompson,  M.  W.  Mansfield. 
COMMITTEE  ON  HIGHWAYS  AND 
BRIDGES. 

W.  H.  Gibbs,  chairman;  Thos.  Sevy,  E. 
J.  Raddatz,  O.  Thompson,  Aquila  Neb- 
eker,  M.  Larsen,  A.  P.  Sarensen. 

COMMITTEE    ON   EDUCATION. 

T.  J.  Stevens,  chairman;  A.  S.  Condon, 
E.  B.  Critchlow,  Daniel  Heiner,  J.  T. 
Thorne,  R.  E.  Egan,  Wm.  Gibson,  T.  D. 
Lewis,   A.   O.   Smoot. 

COMMITTEE    ON    AGRICULTURE   AND 
IRRIGATION. 

J.  R.  Murdock,  chairman;  Hyriim  Lem- 
mon,  J.  M.  Bernlieisel,  W.  H.  Gibbs,  A. 
Cazier,  Daniel  Heiner,  Peter  Thompson, 
W.  P.  Nebeker.   J.   H.   Shafer. 

COMMITTEE  ON  MANUFACTURE  AND 
COMMERCE. 
A.  Cazier,  chairman;  T.  J.  Stevens,  J.  E. 
Robinson,    John    Lowry,    J.    F.    Snedaker, 
J.  R.  Murdock,  A.  O.  Smoot. 

COMMITTEE  ON  MILITIA. 
T.  J.  Stevens,  chairman;  E.  J.  Raddatz, 
J.  F.  Snedaker,  M.  W.  Mansfield,  M.  Lar- 
sen, J.  M.  Bernheisel,  J  T.  Thorne. 
COMMITTEE    ON    LABOR. 
L.   A.   Curtis,   chairman;  E.  J.   Raddatz, 
W.   W.   Wilson,   J.    T.   Thorne,   J.   X.   Fer- 
guson,  Chas.    Morrill,   J.   E.   Robinson,   R. 
E.  Egan,  J.  R.  Murdock. 
COMMITTEE  ON  MINES  AND  MINING. 
E.  J.  Raddatz,  chairman;  Tom  Fergus- 
son,   Geo.   L.   Nye,   Geo.   Beard,  A.   Cazier, 
J.  M.  Bolitho,  J.  X.  Ferguson,  A.  P.  Soren- 
sen,  Wm.  Gibson. 

COMMITTEE   ON   ENGROSSMENT. 
Joseph  Monson,  chairman;  H.   M.   Cush- 
ing,   L.   A.   Curtis. 

COMMITTEE    ON    CAPITOL   AND    CAP- 
ITOL GROUNDS. 
R.  E.  Egan,  chairman;  Peter  M.  Maug- 
han,   Peter    Thompson,    J.    F.    Snedaker, 
Joseph   E.   Robinson. 

COMMITTEE    ON    ENROLLMENT. 
George  Beard,   chairman;   J.   H.    Shafer. 
Hyrum    Lemmon. 

JOINT        COMMITTEE        ON        PUBLIC 
PRINTING. 
J.  X.  Ferguson,  chairman;  H.  M.  Gush- 
ing,  J.   T.   Thorne,    Geo.    Beard,    Peter  M. 
Maughan. 

JOINT     COMMITT-RV,     ON     STATE     LI- 
BRARY. 
N    J    Harris,  chairman;  E.  B.  Critchlow, 
A.  V.  Taylor,  T.   D.   Lewis,   R.  E  Egan. 


JOINT     COMMITTEE     ON     MEMORIAL 
TO  CONGRESS. 

Jos.  E.  Robinson,  chairman;  W.  W.  Wil- 
son, Peter  Thompson,  M.  Larsen,  Wm. 
Gibson. 

COMMITTEE  ON  PENITENTIARY  AND 
REFORM    SCHOOL. 

A.  V.  Taylor,  chairman;  Thomas  Sevy, 
A.  S.  Condon.  Charles  Morrill,  George 
Beard,  A.  P.  Sorensen,  J.  H.  Shafer. 

COMMITTEE    ON    LIVE    STOCK. 
James    Andrus,    chairman;    J.    M.    Bern- 
heisel,    Aquila    Nebeker,     Thomas    Sevy, 
John     Lowry,      Charles      Morrill,      Daniel 
Heiner,  O.  Thompson,  J.  H.  Shafer. 

COMMITTEE  ON  FISH  AND   GAME. 

J.  T.  Thorne,  chairman;  Daniel  Heiner, 
S.  W.  Morrison,  George  Beard,  A.  O. 
Smoot. 

COMMITTEE  ON  Pt^tvaTE   CORPORA- 
TIONS. 

George  L.  Nye,  chairman;  T.  D.  Lewis, 
Charles  Morrill,  N.  J.  Harris,  J.  X.  Fer- 
guson, J.  R.  Murdock,  Peter  M.  Maughan. 

COMMITTEE  ON  MUNICIPAL  CORPOR- 
ATIONS. 

George   L.   Nye,   chairman;   W.   W.   Wil- 
son,   L.    A.    Curtis,    E.    L.    Clark,    Joseph 
Monson,  R.  E.  Egan,  Wm.  Howard. 
COMMITTEE     ON     ASYLUM     FOR     IN- 
SANE. 

A.  S.  Condon,  chairman;  J.  H.  Shafer, 
W.  H.  Gibbs,  J.  E.  Robinson,  M.  W. 
Mansfield,  Hyrum  Lemmon,   Wm.  Gibson. 

COMMITTEE  ON  PUBLIC  HEALTH. 

A.  S.  Condon,  chairman;  J.  F.Snedaker, 
Tom  Fergusson,  James  Andrus,  S.  W. 
Morrison. 

COMMITTEE     ON     CONTINGENT     EX- 
PENSES. 

Orvil  Thompson,  chairman;  J.  M.  Bo- 
litho, L.  A.  Curtis,  W.  P.  Nebeker,  Wm. 
Howard. 

COMMITTEE    ON   STATISTICS. 

E.  L.  Clark,  chairman;  Thomas  Sevy, 
J.  F.  Snedaker,  Joseph  Monso<n,  A,  P. 
Sorensen. 

COMMITTEE  ON  RAILROADS  AND 
COMMON  CARRIEP.S. 
A.  Cazier,  chairman;  H.  M.  Cnshing, 
N.  J.  Harris,  S.  W.  Morrison,  E.  B. 
Critchlow,  James  Andrus,  Hyrum  Lem- 
mon. 

COMMl'lTEE  ON  PUBLIC  LANDS. 

H.  M.  Gushing,  chairman;  Tom  Fergus- 
son,  J.  M.  Bolitho.  John  Lowry,  Daniel 
Heiner,  E.  L.  Clark,  Aquila  Nebeker,  A. 
O.  Smoot,  M.  W.  Mansfield,  E.  B.  Critch- 
low, A.  P.  Sorensen. 


THE    STATE   OF   UTAH. 


COMMITTEE      ON      FEDERAL      RELA- 
TIONS. 

Aquila  Nebeker,  chairman;  E.  B.  Critch- 
low,  T.  P.  Lewis.  W.  P.  Nebeker,  N.  J. 
Harris,  J.  H.  Shafer,  Orvil  Thompson, 
A  O.   Smoot,    Wm.   Howard. 


POPLXATION      OF      ALL      CITIES      OF 
OVEK.   1,000    INHABIT  ANTS. 


SENATORS. 


The  first  United  States  senators  from 
Utah  were  elected  January  15.  1896.  The 
two  branches  of  the  legislature  balloted 
separately,  and  Frank  J.  Cannon  of  Og- 
den  and  Arthur  Brown  of  Salt  Lake 
City  received  a  majority  of  all  the  votes 
of  the  members  and  were  declared  elected 
on  the  following-  day  when  the  two  houses 
met  in  joint  session  and  the  journals  of 
the  preceding-  day  were  read.  Frank  J. 
Cannon  received  the  full  Republican  vote 
—31— in  the  house  of  representatives,  and 
the  full  vote  of  his  party  in  the  senate — 
12.  Arthur  Brown,  the  other  Republican 
candidate,  received  29  of  the  Republican 
votes  in  the  house  and  the  full  Republi- 
can vote  in  the  senate.  But  one  ballot 
was   takeiu 

The  vote  was:  Cannon.  43:  Brown,  41; 
Rawlins  and  Thatcher  each  the  full  Dem- 
ocratic vote  except  one,  the  vote  of  Sena- 
tor J.  R.  Barnes,  who  was  absent  on  ac- 
count of  illness. 


DISTRICT    JUDGES. 

First  district,  comprising-  Cache,  Box 
Elder  and  Rich  counties — Charles  H, 
Hart,   Democrat. 

Second  District,  comprising  Davis,  Mor- 
gan and  Weber  counties— Henry  H.  Ro- 
lapp.  Democrat, 

Third  district,  comprising  Salt  Lake, 
Summit  and  Tooele  countiesT  three  judges 
— Ogden  Hiles,  Democrat;  John  A.  Street 
and  M.  L.  Ritchie,  Republicans. ' 

Fourth  district,  comprising  Uintah, 
Utah  and  Wasatch  counties— A.  C.  Hatch, 
Democrat. 

Fifth  district,  comprising  Beaver,  Iron, 
Juab,  Millard  and  Washington  counties— 
E.  V.  Higgins,  Democrat. 

Sixth  district,  comprising  Garfield, 
Kane,  Piute,  Sevier  and  Wayne  counties 
— William   McCarty,  Republican. 

Seventh  district,  comprising  Carbon, 
Emery,  Grand,  San  Juan  and  Sanpete 
counties — Jacob   Johnson,    Republican. 


Note— Andrew  Howat  and  Le  Grand 
Young,  Democrats,  were  elected  in  the 
T'hmi  district,  but  resigned,  and  Governor 
Wells  appointed  their  successors.  E.  A. 
Wilson  was  elected  in  the  Fourth  district 
"but  resigned  owing  to  ill  health.  The  gov- 
ernor  appointed   his   successor  also. 


CITIES. 

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Salt  Lake  City 


.|44,843|48,076 


First  precinct   .. 
Second  precinct 
Third  precinct  .. 
Fourth  precinct 
Fifth  precinct  .. 


10,388 

14,310 

9,186 

5,740 

8,452 


Ogden  114,889 115,828 

Provo  City  |  5,159|  5,992 

Logan  I  4,620|  5,756 

Park  City  3,390|  4,491 

Springville    |  2,8491  3,168 

Spanish  Fork  2,6861  3,157 

Box   Elder    (  2,139|  2,772 

Payson  |  2,1351  2,644 

Lehl   I  1,907|  2,591 

Nephi    I  2,114;  2,515 


2,510 
2,254]  2,481 
1,9421  2,347 
2,0221  2,328 


Murray 

Mt.  Pleasant  .. 

American  Fork 

Manti    

Pleasant  Grove    i  l,926i  2^301 

Hjphraim   |  1,9171  2,213 

Beaver  I  1,752|  2,043 

Mill   Cre«k    |  1,534|  2,008 

Eureka    |  l,733i  1,908 

Richfield j  1,531|  1,817 

Hyrum   i  1,4231  1,800 

Heber    ]  1,9291  1,672 

St.    George    |  1,3771  1.661 

Farmers    |      334!  1,605 

East  Bountiful   i  |  1,595 

Fremont    ! i  1,520 

Coalville    |  1,166|  1,515 

Fairview    1,2631  1,494 

Smithfield    |  1,386|  1,448 

Moroni    ,  1,251|  1,406 

Wellsville    I  1...     1.390 

Gunnison    j      845|  1,367 

Bingham    I  1,101|  1,313 

Richmond    I  1,232|  1,295 

Spring  City   j  1,0441  1,226 

Cedar  City   |  1,0531  1,208 

Kaysville  j  1.0881  1,203 

Sandy   1  1,065!  1,195 

Tooele  City   |  1,008|  1,154 

Monroe    I      880|  1,15] 

Huntsville   I  1.1581  1,144 

Farm-ington   j  1,036|  1,103 

Fillmore  City   |      8381  1,077 

Salina   i     628|  1,022 

In  each  1,000  inhabitants  there  are  513 
males  and  487  fe»males;  788  native  and  212 
foreign  born;  995  whites  to  5  colored  and 
Chinese. 


T.     D.     LEWIS. 


OK\li.  L.  THOMP-  SON. 


f.  ^^ 


A.     CAZIER. 


J.  M.  BERNHISEL. 


THE   STATE  OF  UTAH. 


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AREA  OF  UTAH. 

The  area  of  Utah  is  54,064,640  acres.  Of 
this  total  area  there  are  14,121,960  acres  of 
surveyed  lands  and  39,942,680  acres  yet  un- 
surveyed. 

STATE    LANDS. 

Following-  are  the  government  grants 
to  the  state,  with  the  amount  of  land  ap- 
propriated to   each  separate  fund: 

Capitol  building   64,000  acres 

♦University    200,000  acres 

Agricultural  college   200,000  acres 

Reservoir  500,000  acres 

Insane  asylum  100,000  acres 

School   of  mines    100,000  acres 

Deaf  and  dumb  asylum 100,000  acres 

Reform  school  100,000  acres 

Normal  school  100,000  acres 

Institution  for  blind  100,000  acres 

Miners'    hospital    50,000  acres 

♦Common  school  6,000,000  acres 

♦Exact  amount  not  known,  this  being 
the  approximate  amount. 


TERRITORIAL.    OFFICERS. 

The  last  Territorial  officers  were: 

Governor— Caleb  W.  West. 

Secretary  of  State— Charles  C.  Richards, 
Ogden. 

Auditor— John  T.  Caine,  Salt  Lake  City. 

Treasurer— J.  W.  ■  Whitehead,  Jr.,  Salt 
Lake  City. 

Superintendent  of  Schools— T.  B.  Lewis, 
Offden. 

Commissioners  to  Locate  University 
Lands— James  Meikle,  John  G.  Robinson, 
C.   R.   Lyman. 

Sealer  of  Weights  and  Measures— P.  S. 
Ertman,  Salt  Lake  City. 

Pish  and  Game  Commissioner— A.  M. 
Musser,  Salt  Lake  City. 

Recorder  of  Marks  and  Brands— John 
T    C  3>i  H'G 

Utah  Commission— Albert  G.  Norrell. 
chairman:  Erasmus  W.  Tatlock,  Jerrold 
R.  Letcher.  Hoyt  Sherman,  Jr.,  George 
W  Thatcner;  Charles  C.  Richards,  secre- 
tary; George  E.  Blair,  George  W.  Parks, 
clerks. 

SUPREME  COURT. 

Hon.  S.  A.  Merritt,  Chief  Justice,  Dem- 
ocrat, -r       X- 

Hon.  W.  H  King,  Associate  Justice, 
Democrat. 

Hon.  George  W.  Bartch,  Associate  Jus- 
tice,  Republican. 

Hon.  Henry  H.  Rolapp,  Associate  Jus- 
tice, Democrat. 

DISTRICT    COURT   JUDGES. 

Pirst  district— W.  H.   King,   Democrat. 

Second  district— George  W.  Bartch,  Re- 
publican. ,       .       ^ 

Third  district— S.   A.  Merritt,  Democrat. 

Fourth  district— Henry  H.  Rolapp,  Dem- 
ocrat. 


OFFICERS       OP       THE       DISTRICT 

COURTS. 
United   States   Marshal   and   Warden   of 
the  Penitentiary— Nat  M.   Brigham. 
United  States  Attorney— J.   W.   Judd. 
Assistant  United   States  Attorneys— An- 
drew Howat,  Salt  Lake  City;  J.  T.  Rich- 
ards,  S.  R.   Thurman,   Provo;  J.   W  .Ma- 
ginnis,   Ogden. 

LAND   OFFICERS. 
Surveyor   General— George   W.    Snow. 
Receiver     of     United     States     Moneys- 
Frank  Harris. 

Register  of  United  States  Land  Office- 
Byron  Groo. 

OTHER  OFFICERS. 
United    States   Deputy   Stamp   Collector 
— R.   H..  Cabell. 
Traveling  Deputy  Collector— S.  P.  Chase. 
Deputy    Warden    Penitentiary— Felix    J. 
Stark. 

Mine    Inspector— J.     B.     Rawlings,    Salt 
Lake  City. 

TERRITORIAL      BOARD      OF      PHAR- 
MACY. 
Clarence    H.    McCoy,    Salt    Lake;    J.    B. 
Farlow,  Salt  Lake;  George  H.  Fennemore, 
Beaver  county;  John  S.   Boyden,   Summit 
county;  W.   A.   Wade,   Box  Elder  county. 
BOARD    OF    MEDICAL    EXAMINERS. 
Allan  Fowler,   Salt  Lake  county;  J.   M. 
Dart,  Salt  Lake  county;  Walter  N.  Pike, 
Utah    county;    Joseph    S.    Richards,    Salt 
Lake;  C.  C.  Shinnick,  Salt  Lake;  John  D. 
Carnahan,   Weber  county;   MacKenzie  N. 
Graves,  Wert>er  county. 

FEDERAL     OFFICIALS     IN     UTAH. 
Hooiu    John    A.    Marshall,    judge   of    the 
United    States   court. 
John  W.  Judd,  district  attorney. 
William   L.   McGinnis,    assistant  district 
attorney. 
Nat  M.  Brigham,  United  States  marshal. 
Jerrold  R.   Letcher,  clerk  of  the  federal 
courts* 
George  W.   Snow,   surveyor  general. 
Frank    Harris,    receiver    of    the    United 
States  land  office. 

Byron     Groo,      register     of    the    United 
States  land  office. 

R.     H.     Cabell,     United     States   deputy 
stamp    collector. 

S.    F.    Chase,    traveling  deputy   internal 
revenue  collector. 

BANKING  INSTITUTIONS. 
The  State  of  Utah,  in  its  banking  insti- 
tutions, has  a  total  paid  up  capiteri  of 
nearly  $6,000,000  and  deposits  of  $6,500,000. 
In  arriving  at  these  figures  the  exact 
capital  and  deposits  of  those  banks  ad- 
vertising their  business  were  added  to  con- 
servative estimate®  of  capital  and  de- 
posits of  private  banking  concerns  which 
refuse  to  publish  their  statements.— Tri- 
bune Almanac. 


58 


THE   STATE  OF  UTAH. 


WOMAN  SUPFRA&E. 

Senator  Pomeroy  introduced  a  bill  in  the 
United  States  senate  to  establish  woman 
suffrag-e  in  Utah,  February  12,  1870.  An 
act  passed  by  the  legrislature  conferring 
the  elective  franchise  upon  the  women  of 
Utah  was  approved  by  the  acting  gov- 
ernor,  S.  A.   Mann. 

Woman  suffrage  taken  away  by  the 
Edmunds-Tlicker  law  of  1887. 

Woman  suffrage  restored  by  the  State 
constitution  adopted  November  5,  1895. 


RAILROADS. 

The  railway  mileage  of  Utah  is  now  as 
follows: 

Union  Pacific- 
Main      lines      in      Utah,      east 

border    to    Ogden 73.00 

Ogden   to  Frisco   280.00 

Salt  Lake  &  Western,  Lehi  to 

Eureka  62.00 

Echo  to  Park  City 31.00 

Utah    &    Northern,    Ogden    to 

Idaho  line   96.30 

Utah  &  Nevada,   Salt  Lake  to 

near  Stockton  (narrow  gauge)  37.00 

Total    Union   Pacific 579.30 

Rio  Grande  Western.— 
Main     line,    Ogden    to   eastern 

border   294.10 

Sanpete  branch,   Thistle  June- 

Uon  to  Manti   60.80 

Sevier  railway   (leased),   Manti 

to  Sialina  25.70 

Bingham  branch  14.15 

Bingham       tramway,        (3-foot 

gauge)    3.50 

Alta    branch    to    Wasatch 10.06 

Alta  tramway  (3-foot  gauge)..     7.80 
Trntic  line  (leased),  Springville 

Junction  to  Silver  City 46.30 

P.  V.  coal  mine  branch 17.50 

Various  spurs 8.70 

Total   R.   G.   W^ 488.61 

Central       Pacific— Main       line, 

western    border   to    Ogden....  157.00 

SGJipete   Valley.- 
Nephi   to  Manti    .................  52.00 

Maniti  to  Morrison,  via  Sterling    8.25 

Total  Sanpete  Valley. 60.25 

Utah  Central  (narrow  gauge).— 
Salt  Lake  City  to  Park  City. .  31.00 
Salt  Lake  City  to  Fort  Douglas    6.00 
Sugar  House  to  Mill  Creek 3.00 

Total  Utah  Central 40.00 

Hot    Springs    line,    Salt    Lake 

City  to  Farmington i»-w 

Salt  Lake  &  Lo®  Angeles,  Salt 

Lake  City  to  Saltair 15.00 

Salt   Lake    &    Mercur 11-00 

Grand  total  of  mileage l.vJbS.ib 

^  —Tribune  Almanac. 


Numerous  new  railroads  are  projected 
and  some  of  them  will  doubtless  be  built 
and  at  once.  They  are  the  Utah  &  Cali- 
fornia, which  proposes  to  build  from 
Milford  to  the  Pacific  coast,  the  Salt  Lake 
&  Pacific,  which  is  to  run  from  Salt  Lake 
City  to  the  Deep  Creek  mining  district, 
and  is  already  under  construction,  and 
the  Utah  Mdland,  which  also  proposes  to 
build  to  the  coast.  Besides,  the  Rio 
Grande  Western  is  building  at  the  pres- 
ent time,  an  extension  from  Salina  to 
the  settlements  south  as  far  as  Sevier. 
The  road  also  proposes  a  branch  line  from 
Provo  to  Park  City,  up  the  Provo  canyon. 

UECHSIL.A11VEJ    VOTE,    1895. 

THE    SENATORIAL   VOTE. 
Following  is  a  summary  by  coiintiesi  of 
the  vote  on  State  senators  in  1895,  showing 
twelve  Republicans  elected  and  six  Demo- 
crats: 

FIRST    DISTRICT. 


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SECOND   DISTRICT. 
(Cache  County. 


Total    vote I.  1,257|   1,6311        32 


Plurality    I I      374|. 


fHO^rAP  SEVY. 


J.    F.    SNEDAKER. 


HYRUM  LEMMON. 


D.     HEINER. 


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THE   STATE   OF  UTAH. 


THIRD    DISTRICT. 


EIGHTH  DISTRICT. 


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Majority 


.1  8311  461 
.1  519|  364 

.113501 1825 
,|5251.... 


NINTH    DISTRICT. 
(Sanpete  County.) 


CANDIDATE. 


W.  D.  Candland  (R.) 

Ferdinand  Erickson   (D.) 

TENTH    DISTRICT. 


[1529    110 
1419  .... 


Sevier  .. 
Wayne  . 
Piute  ... 
Garfield 


Totals  ... 
Majority 


673 

558 

121 

180 

164 

148 

259 

206 

1217 

1092 

125 

FOURTH  DISTRICT-TWO   SENATORS. 
(Weber  County.) 


CANDIDATES. 


B.    M.   Allison,    Jr.    (R.) ;20521  270 

David  McKay  (R.) 2055   273 

David  Evans    (D.) 11782 

John  Seaman  (D.) 

Frederick    Foy    (P.), 
J.  S.  Butter  (P.). 


Summit  |1069|1188 

Wasatch  339   458 


Totals    .. 
Majority 


. 1140811646 
.|....i  238 


SIXTH     DISTRICT— FIVE     SENATORS. 
(Sialt    Lake   County.) 


CANDIDATES. 


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George    M.    Canaion    (RT) 155181  711 

H.  E.  Booth  (R.) 155971  790 

Glen  Miller  (R.) |5514[  707 

Georgre   Sutherland    (R,) [56001  793 

Elmer  B.   Jones  (R.) I5318|  511 

P.   L.   Williams   (D.) |4301.... 

G.  A.  Whitaker  (D.) |4807  .... 


J.  S.  Rawlins  (D.). 

C.  R.  Savage  (D.).. 
O.  W.  Moyle  (D.). 
J.    M.    Silvers  (P.).. 

D.  H.    Gray   (P.) 

John  Smith  (P.) 

William   Hobbs  (P.). 

H.   C.    Snyder^(P.) '-'•-_i |  3681.... 

SBVENTH~DISTRICT— TWO  SENATORS 

(Utah  County.) 


4394 
4409 
4379 
385 
372 
359 


CANDIDATES. 


John  E.   Booth   (R.) (24771. ... 

Thomas  Cutler  (R.) |2558|.... 

A.  J.   Evans  (D.) 125781    21 

M.    M.    Warner    (D.) |2649|    91 

J.  B.  Cooper  (P.) I    52.... 

Henry  T.   Brooks   (P.) I    581.... 


THE   STATE   OP  UTAH. 


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ELEVENTH    DISTBICT, 


CANDIDATES. 


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Beaver  1  408 

Iron  I  306 

Washington    I  214 

Kane   I  166 

Totals  11094 

Majority  I  — 


297 
248 
520 


1151 
57 


TWELJ'TH   DISTRICT 


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378 

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161 

Uintah             

183 
139 

231 
31 

141 

Grand   

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Totals 

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859 

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VOTE   ON   REPR9ENTATIVES. 

Following  is  the  vote  on  members  of  the 
lower  branch  of  the  legislature,  each  coun- 
ty being  entitled  to  one  membeir;  but 
Cache  county  has  three  members;  Salt 
Lake  county  has  ten  members;  Sanpete 
county  has  two  members;  Utah  county  has 
four  members,  and  Weber  county  has  four 
members : 

BEAVER    COUNTY. 

Cajididates.  Vote.  Maj. 

Presley    Denny    (R.) 393  83 

S.    N.    Slaughter    (D.) 310 

BOX    ELDER    COUNTY. 

Candidates.  Vote.  Maj. 

W.  H.  Gibbs  (R.) 734  77 

Charles  Kelly  (D.) 657 


Maj. 


345 
348 
451 


CACHE  COUNTY. 
(Three  Members.) 
Candidates.  Vote. 

Lorenzo  Hanson  (R.) 1,276 

Samuel  Holt  (R.) 1,274 

Wm.    H.    Lewis   (R.) 1,274 

Joseph   Monson    (D.) 1,621 

J.  M.  Bernheisel  (D.) 1,624 

H.    P.    M.    Maughan    (D.) 1,627 

James   Purdie   (P.) 28 

Thomas    Jessop    (P.) 28 

CARBON    COUNTY. 
Candidates.  Vote.  Maj. 

J.    X.    Ferguson    (R.) 288         122 

John    Hood    (D.) 166 

DAVIS   COUNTY. 
Candidates.  Vote.  Plur. 

H.    W.    Haight    (R.) ;    434 

R.  E.  Egan  (D.) 610         176 

G.   W.   Kendall   (P.) 37 

EMERY   COUNTY. 
Candidates.  Vote.  Maj. 

J.    E.    Johnson   (R.) 232 

William  Hurd   (D.) 371  48 

GARFIELD  COUNTY. 
Candidates.  Vote.  Maj. 

Thomas  Sevy  (R.) 249         37 

John    Houston     (D.) 212 

SALT  LAKE  COUNTY. 
(Ten  Members.) 
Candidates.  Vote.  Plur. 

B.  B.    Critchlow    (R.) 5,597      1,035 

H.   M.   Cushing  (R.) 5,630      1,068 

T.    D.    Lewis   (R.) 5,615      1,053 

S.   W.   Morrison   (R.) 5,646     1,084 

W.    P.    Nebeker   (R.) 5,560        998 

George    L.    Nye   (R.) 5,649     1,087 

J.   F.   Snedalcer  (R.) 5,581     1,019 

A.   V.   Taylor   (R.) 5,602     1,040 

W.    W.    Wilson    (R.) 5,622      1,060 

T.    Fergusson    (R.) 5,417        855 

D.    R.    Allen    (D.) 4,370      

R.   S.    Wells   (D.) ,...4,408      

.7.  H.  Murphy  (D.) 4,562      

Heber  Bennion  (D.) 4,376      

Henry  Wallace  (D.) 4,444      

C.  W.   Penrose   (D.) 4,324      

O.  P.  Miller  (D.) 4,382      

Charles    J.    Pence    (D.) 4,414 

Joseph  E.  Taylor  (D.) 4,325 

Adam  Spiers  (D.) 4,343 

A.   R.   Derge   (P) 

W.  I.  Barnett  (P.) 

A.   B.  Lambson  (P.) 

H.  L.  R.  Jones  (P.) 

J.  S.  Garrison  (P.) 364 

Levi   Olson   (P.) 

James   Thompson    (P.) 

Walter   Bryant   (P.) 

L.  Scherzinger  (P.) 

Paul  Fisher  (P.) 


375 
370 
358 
367 


354 


363 
354 


A.    P.    SORENSEN. 


GEORGE    BEARD. 


E.     J.     RADDATZ. 


JOS.    MONSON. 


THE  STATE   OP  UTAH. 


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SAN    JUAN    COUNTY. 
Candidates.  Vote.  Maj. 


Piatt  S.  Lyman  (R.). 
A.  P.  Sorenson  (D.). 


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SANPETE   COUNTY. 

(Two  Members.) 

Candidates.  Vote.  Maj. 

John  Lowry  Sr.,  (R.) 1,545         139 

Peter    Thompson    (R.) 1,554         148 

P.  H.   Madsen  (D.) 1,406 

N.   C.    Sorenson   (D.) 1,406 

SEyiER    COUNTY. 
Candidates.  Vote.  Plur. 

J.    M.    Bolitho    (R.) 679         129 

W.  H.  See&miller  (D.) 550 

E.  A.   Wall  (P.) 11 

SUMMIT    Cu'JNTY. 

Candidates.                                     Vote.  Plur. 

Georg-e    Beard    (R.) 1.346  457 

C.  A.  Callis  (D.) 889        

J.  M.  Warner  (P.) 3 

GRAND    COUNTY. 
Candidates.  Vo<te.  Plur. 

John    H.    Shafer    (R.) 117  63 

O.  W.  Warner  (D.) 54 

Samuel  N.  King  (P.) 8 

IRON    COUNTY. 
Candidates.  Vote.  Maj. 

Edward  L.   Clark  (R.) 298  43 

George  W.   Middleton  (D.) 255 

JUAB  COUNTY. 
Candidates.  Vote.  Maj. 

Adelbert   Cazler  (R.) 752         225 

Edward  Pike  (D.) 527 

KANE    COUNTY. 
Candidates.  Vote.  Maj. 

Joseph  E.  Robinson  (R.) 162  73 

William  T.  Stewart  (D.) 89 

MILLARD    COUNTY. 
Candidates.  Vote.  Maj. 

Orvill©  Thompson    (R.) 507         132 

W.  A.  Ray  (D.) 375 

MORGAN    COUNTY. 
Candidates-  Vote.  Plur. 

D.  Heiner  (K.) 214  39 

R.    Frve    (D.) 175 

J.    Thursiton    (P.) 9 

PIUTE   COUNTY. 

Ca.ndidates.  Vote.  Plur. 

Charles  Morrill  (R.) 160  21 

J.  H.  Fullmer  (D.) 139 

R.   De  Witt  (P.) 14 


RICH    COUNTY. 

Candidates,  Vote.  Plur. 

Wesley  K.  Walton  (R.) 158 

Aquila  Nebeker  (D.) 181  23 

TOOELE    COUNTY. 

Candidates.  Vote.  Plur. 

E.    J.   Raddatz   (R.) 487         102 

E.  A.   Wail  (D.) 385 

James  Spalding  (P.) 11       

UINTAH    COUNTY. 

Candidates,  Vote.  Plur. 

G.   E.   Adams   (R.) 192 

William    Gibson    (D.) 229  37 

A.    D.    Hollinger    (P.) 132 

UlAH  COUNTY. 

(Four    Members.) 

Candidates.  Vote.  Plur, 

G.  G.  Simons  (R.) 2,558 

J.  T.  Bringhurst  (R.) 2,562 

J.    T.    Thorne   (R.) 2,572  7 

J.  C.  Graham  (R.) 2,539 

W.   M.   Roylance  (D.) 2,565 

M.    Larsen    (D.) 2,574  12 

H.    Lemmon    (D.) 2,567  5 

A.   O.   Smoot  (D.) 2,579  17 

J.  C.  Leatham  (P.) 58 

E.  Mayher  (P.) 57 

David  Evans   (P.) 58 

T.  M.  Todd  (P.) 60 

WASATCH   COUNTY. 

Candidates.  Vote.  Maj. 

Orson  Hicken  (R.) 371 

Joseph   R.   Murdock   (D.) 428  57 

WASHINGTON    COUNTY. 
Candidates.  Vote.  Plur. 

David  McMillan  (R.) Z30 

James  Andrews  (D.) 496         266 


WAYNE    COUNTY. 


Candidates. 
O.    W.    Allen    (R.).... 
M.  W.  Mansfield  (D.). 


Vote.  Maj. 

.136      

.    163  27 


WEBER    COUNTY. 

(Four  Members.) 

Candidates,  Vote. 

Lee  A.    Curtis  (R.) 1,982 

Nathan   J.   Harris   (R.) 2,059 

A.  S.  Condon  (R.) 1,935 

Thomas  J.   Stevens  (R.) 2,052 

J.   C.   Armstrong  (D.) 1,753 

Angus  M.   Kay  (D.) 1,772 

Joseph   S.    Peery   (D.) 1,887 

Arthur  Braden  (D.) 1,744 

John  M.  Wag-ner  (P.) 203 

William   Barnett   (P.) 202 

W.    C.    Summer    (P) 198 

James  McFarland   (P.) 199 


Plur. 

95 
172 

48 
165 


64 


THE   STATE  OF   UTAH. 


BIOGRAPHICAL. 

GOVERNOR    WELLS. 

Heber  M.  Wells,  the  first  chief  execu- 
tive of  the  new  State  of  Utah,  was  born 
in  Salt  Lake  City,  August  11,  1859.  He 
received  his  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  city  and  at  the 
University  of  Utah.  Governor  Wells' 
father  was  Daniel  H.  Wells,  one  of  Utah's 
earliest  pioneers  and  a  man  who  was 
siecond  only  to  Brigham  Young  in  his  in- 
fluence and  standing  among  the:  people 
to  whom^  he  became  generally  known  as 
the   "father  of  republicanism." 

Governor  Wells,  though  but  a  young 
man,  is  one  of  the  foremost  citizens  of 
Utah  and  has  been  for  a  number  of  years. 
He  has  been  a  public  official  almost  from 
boyhood,  and  the  offices  he  has  held  have 
afforded  him  a  training  which  has  fitted 
him  to  fill  particularly  well  the  position  of 
chief  executive. 

Being  young,  he  is  possessed  of  great 
energy;  a  lifetime  of  great  responsiility 
has  given  him  good  judgment,  and  he 
ha>s  the  courage  of  his  convictions  tO'  do 
without  flinching  that  which  he  conceives 
to  be  right. 

Priocr  to  his  elevation  to  the  head  of 
the  state  government,  Mr.  Wells  served 
as  recorder  of  Salt  Lake  City  from  1882 
to  1890;  for  two  terms  was  a  memtber  of 
tho  board  of  public  works ;  was  secretary 
of  the  constitutional  convention  ini  1887, 
and  was  a  member  of  the  convention 
which  framed  the  constitution  under 
whiich  Utah  was  admitted. 

Governor  Wells  was  elected  in  the  fall 
of  1895  on  th.e  following  declaration  of 
principles : 

"By  observation  and  experience  he  has 
been  taugbt  that  the  perpetuation  of 
American  principles  and  ideas  lies  in  our 
free  public  school  system,  and  as  such 
he  is  its  warm  supporter  and  advocate*. 
He  is  a  staunch  friend  of  law  and  order, 
arid  while  recognizing  the  cause  of  or- 
ganized labor  he  is  opposed  to  all  unlaw- 
ful methods  and  violence  in  seeking  to 
redress  real  or  imaginary  wrongs.  He  is 
a  firm  believer  in  the  greatest  individual 
liberty  on  all  matters  pertaining  to  relig- 
ion and  politics;  he  believes  in  the  doc- 
trine of  protection^  to^  American  indus- 
tries; is  an  ardent  supporter  of  the  cause 
of  silver,  and  desires  to  see  the  resources 
of  Utah  developed  to  their  highest  possi- 
bilities, and  above  all  his  loyalty  and 
patriotism  to  the  principles  of  our  fore- 
fathers, who  founded  this  government, 
can  never  be  questioned." 

During  his  tenure  of  office  thus  far  Grov- 
emor  Wells  has  not  violated  in  any  re- 
spect any  of  those  principles,  and  ham 
proven  a  most  conservative,  conscientious 
and  able  official.  During  the  session  of 
the  flrst  legislature,  upon  which  devolved 


the  responsibility  of  framing  laws  to  meet 
the  changed  condirt:ions  from  a  territorial 
to  a  state  form  of  government,  his  sug- 
gestions proved  invaluable  to  the  mem- 
bers, and  to  his  great  foresight  is  due  in 
large  degree  the  excellence  of  the  laws 
which  were  enacted.  As  an  evidence  of 
the  esteem  in  which  his  judgment  was 
held  by  the  members,  may  be  cited  the 
fact  that  nearly  every  suggestion  which 
he  made  to  the  legislature  in  his  mes- 
sage was  followed  and  acted  upon  accord- 
ing to  his  views. 

Under  the  constitution  Governor  Wells' 
term  of  office  is  five  years,  but  those  of 
his  successors  will  be  four  years. 


SENATOR  WARRUM. 

Noble  Warrum,  Jr.,  was  born  in  1866, 
near  Greenfield,  Indiana  He  attended 
district  school  and  the  graded  schools  of 
New  Palestine,  from  which  he  graduated 
at  the  age  of  twelve;  passed  a  successful 
examination  and  secured  next  to  the 
highest  grade  of  teacher's  license  issued 
in  the.  state  at  the  age  of  thirteen;  at- 
tended Greenfield  High  school,  and  after- 
wards De  Pauw  university  two  years; 
read  law  two  years  and  attended  the  law 
school  of  Michigan'  university  one-  year. 

Judge  Warrumi  has  been  in  Utah  five 
years,  during  which  time  he  practiced 
law  two  years,  edited  the  Logan  Journal 
two  years,  and  served  as  judge  of  the 
probate  court  of  Cache  county  one  year, 
which  position  he  held  at  the  time  Utah 
was  admitted  into  the  Union. 

He  was  one  of  the  fiirst  in  the.  division 
movement  and  took  an  active  part  in  the 
organization  of  the  Democratic  party  in 
northern  Utah;  was  a  charter  member 
of  the  famous  Cache  coynty  "Sage 
Brush"  Democratic  club,  and  of  the  first 
Democratic  territorial  committee  of  Utah. 

He  was  chosen  a  member  of  the  consti- 
tutional convention  of  1895,  which  laid  the 
foundation  of  statehood;  in  the  fall  of 
that  year  he  was  a  prominent  candidate 
for  the  office  of  district  judge  of  the 
First  judicial  district,  but  was  defeated 
in  the  nomination  by  three  votes,  his  op- 
ponent being  Hon.  Charles  H.  Hart. 

Mr.  Warrumi  was  nominated  by  accla- 
mation for  the  position  of  State  senator, 
and,  although  his  opponent  was  one  of 
the  presidency  of  the  Cache  stake  of 
Zion,  Mr.  Warrum  ran  ahead  of  his 
ticket. 

Mr.  Warrum  was  married  in  February, 
1890,  to  Miss  Julia  Hagen,  youngest 
daughter  of  Hon.  Andrew  Hagen  of  In- 
dianapolis. As  a  result  of  the'  union,  one 
child,  a  boy  a  year  and  a  half  old,  glad- 
dens the  home  of  the  Warrum®  in  Logan. 
Mr.  Warrum  resumed  the  practice  of  law 
at  the  close  of  the  session  of  the  legis- 
lature. 


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JOHN  H.  SHAFER. 


M.     LARSEN. 


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E.  B.  CRITCHLOW. 


J.    E.    ROBINSON. 


THE   STATE   OF   UTAH. 


REPRESENTATIVE      GIBSON. 

William  Gibson,  the  representative  from 
Uintah  county,  was  born  in  Scotland,  of 
Scotch-Irish  parentage,  the  25th  of  April, 
1845.  He  came  to  America,  in  1852;  lived 
tirst  in  New  Orleans  for  a  time,  moving 
from  there  tO'  S.t.  Louis,  wherei  he  resided 
for  Ave  years. 

While  employed  there  in,  a  steam  bakery 
he  packed  700  barrels  of  pilot  bread  for 
General  Johnstton,'st  army  when  prepara- 
tions were  being  made  for  the  famous 
Utah  expedition. 

From  St.  Louis  young  Gibson  went  to 
Florence;  from  there  to  Council  Bluffs, 
and  in  1860  came  to  Utah,  where  he  has 
since  remained.  His  life  here  has  been 
such  that  his  name  is  a,  household  woird 
throughout  those  sections  in  which  he  has 
lived. 

Mr.  Giibsion  was  easily  the  character 
of  the  whole  membership  of  the  first 
State  legislature,  a  statement  which  may 
be  better  understood  from  the  fact  that 
he  rarely,  if  ever,  secured  the  floor  during 
the  session,  that  he  did  not  say  some- 
thing which  the  newspapers  considered 
worth  printing.  A  rugged  honesty  and  de- 
termined stand  for  the  right  were  his 
ruling  characterstics,  and  a  ready  resource 
to  native  wit  made  his  short,  pointed 
speeches  a   feature   of   all   debates. 

Mr.  Gibson's  character  is  moulded  on  the 
plan  of  one  who  has  spent  nearly  the 
whole  of  a  life-time  on  the  frontier,  whose 
life,  from  being  an  aggressive  and  a  leaa- 
ing  spirit,  has  become  an  eventful  one  in 
those  incidents  of  the  Kit  Carson  type, 
which  are  now  but  a  tradition.  Strong 
and  fearless,  possessed  of  extraordinary 
physical  endurance,  a  natural  leader  in 
adventures  besides  being  the  bitterest  of 
foes  tO'  all  law  breakers,  he  has,  as  a  re- 
sult of  his  border  experiences  and  Black 
Hawk  war  service,  a  mind  stored  with 
reminiscences  which,  if  expediency  per- 
mitted, would  make  this  sketch  a  bio- 
graphy as  interestng  as  any  border  novel 
or  drama  ever  written.  A  brief  account 
of  his  Black  Hawk  war  experience  must, 
therefore,  suffice.  When  the  war  broke 
oiit  Mr.  Gibson  became  a  captain  in  the 
Utah  militia.  He  had  as  his  lieutenant, 
his  brother-in-law,  John  C.  Lambert,  and 
they  were  given  charge  of  the  work  of 
recovering  horses  stolen  by  the  In- 
dians. "We  got  the  horses  every  time," 
says  he,  w^hen  reciting  the  story,  "but 
sometimes  we  paid  dearly  for  success." 
He  tells  of  one  campaign  fraught  with 
many  exciting  adventures  and  from  which 
he  returned  with  his  clothes,  such  as 
he  had  left,  tied  on  with  strings.  While 
on   this   trip,    he  tells   of   having  killed   a 


rabbit  and  drunk  its  blood  to  keep  from 
dying  of  thirst. 

He  also  tells  of  the  narrow  escape  from 
a  fate  not  unlike  that  of  Absalom  the 
unruly.  They  came  in  the  course  of  their 
wanderings  on  nine  "wickiups"  of  In- 
dians. They  proposed  to  help  themselves 
to  the  horses,  but  concluded  the  cover  ot 
night  would  afford  a  protection  the  day 
time  could  not  give.  Night  came  and  it 
was  dark  enough  to  have  hidden  a  com- 
pany of  spooks.  Their  advance  through 
trees  and  underbrush  was  a  slow  one.  They 
were  on  horseback  but  dared  to  move  only 
as  a  streak  of  lightning  enabled  them  to 
measure  the  distance  ahead  from  one  ob- 
stacle to  another.  One  of  these  calcular 
tions  proved  not  quite  correct,  for  Mr. 
Gibson  suddenly  found  himself  hanging 
his  horse  from  under  him,  to  the  branch 
of  a  tree  which  had  gone  down  his  back 
and  held  him  by  the  clothing  in  vice-like 
grip.  He  says  if  his  brother-in-law,  Lam- 
bert, had  not  rescued  him  his  skeleton 
would  probably  be  hanging  there  still. 
Their  guide  on  this  occasion  was  a  son 
of  the  Ute  chief  Arapine,  "Yank"  by 
name.  At  the  episode  of  the  blood-drink- 
ing he  conferred  on  Mr.  Gibson  a  new 
nam-e  by  which  he  is  known  among  the 
surviving  Indians  until  this  day,  "Anchi- 
bob,"  or  blood-drinker.  The  subject  of 
the  sketch  is  fond  of  weaving  in  a  moral 
with  one  of  his  tales  of  adventures  as 
against  the  making  of  oaths  or  the  ad- 
vice that  if  one  is  led  into  so  unwise  an 
impulse  that  it  is  better  to  repent  be- 
fore it  is  too  late,  and  in  this  connection 
is  the  character  of  the  man  best  illus- 
trated. 

The  Indians  had  killed  one  of  his  horses, 
one  of  a  team,  and  as  he  came  to  it  lying 
in  the  trail  he  swore  that  if  he  found 
an  Indian  on  the  back  of  the  other  one 
he  would  kill  him.  He  soon  had  an  op- 
portunity to  fulfil  his  word.  The  horse 
and  Indian  appeared  ere  long  on  the 
trail.  He  gave  him  chase,  reaching  the 
edge  of  a  stream  as  the  Indian  gained 
the  middle.  He  leveled  his  revolver  on 
him  and  the  Indian  turned  and  looked 
down  the  barrel.  These  are  his  own 
words:  "Right  then  I  changed  my  mind. 
I  did  not  want  to  kill  a  human  being,  so 
I  dropped  the  point  of  the  pistol,  and  the 
Indian  dropped  into  the-  water.  I  got  the 
horse,  saddle  and  buffalo  robe  and  the 
good  will  of  all  the  Utes,  for  the  Indian 
remembered  me  and  told  his  story.  At  the 
time  of  the  Meeker  massacre  they  could 
have  killed  every  settler  in  Uintah  county, 
but  instead  they  shook  hands  with  us  as 
they  went  to  the  fight.  History  tells  the 
result." 


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SENATOR    WARNER. 

M.  M.  Warner  was  born  at  Leon,  Iowa, 
June  12,  1856,  and  was  educated  in  the 
high  school  of  his  native  town.  After 
graduating,  with  his  parents,  he  removed 
to  Colorado  in  the  year  1873  and  studied 
law  in  the  office  of  his  father,  J.  W.  War- 
ner, where  he  was  employed  as  clerk.  In 
1882  he  began  a  course  of  study  at  the 
Colorado  Law  University  and  upon  com- 
pletion was  admitted  to  practice  in  1885 
in  Frederick,  Brown  county,  Dakota.  He 
practiced  law  there  until  1888  when  he 
changed  his  residence  to  Aspen,  Colorado., 
where  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Hon. 
Greorge  D.  Johnstone.  He  served  as  as- 
sistant prosecuting  attorney  until  the 
fall  of  1891,  when  he  came  to  Utah,  locat- 
ing at  Provo.  He  has  made  this  his  home 
ever  since. 

Mr.  Warner  married  Eleanor  C.  Nuttall, 
daughter  of  John  Nuttall,  November  8, 
1892. 

He  is  one  of  the  leaders  of  the  profes- 
sion in  this  state  and  is  a  man  with  a 
large  practice,  both  criminal  and  civil. 
He  was  elected  as  a  Democrat,  from  the 
Seventh  senatorial  district. 


SENATOR  SUTHERLAND. 
Oeoirge  Suitherland  is  33  years  of  age; 
has  resided  in  Utah  since  two  years  old. 
Ha  was  born  in  Buckinghamshire,  Eng- 
land. He  studied  law  at  the  University 
of  Michigan,  Ann  Arbor,  and  was  admit- 
ted to  practice  in  the  supreme  court  of 
Michigan  in  1883,  and  in  the  supreme 
court  of  Utah  in  1884.  Married  in  1883. 
Occupation,  lawyer;  now  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Williams,  Van  Cott  and  Suther- 
land. Was  president  of  the  board  oif  di- 
rectors of  the  territorial  insane  asylum 
four  years— 1890-1894.  Was  candidate  for 
mayor  of  Provo  on  the  Liiberal  ticket  in 
1890;  was  placed  in  nomination  for  dele- 
gate tO'  congress  before  the  Republican 
State  convention  in  1892;  received,  on  last 
ballot,  205  votes;  F.  J.  Cannon,  211,  and 
the  latter  was  nominated.  Mr.  Sutherland 
was  elected  to  the  senate  from,  the  Fifth 
senatorial  district,  and  was  one  of  the 
hardest  workers  and  most  valued  mem- 
bers of  that  body. 


CONGRESSMAN  ALLEN. 
C.  E.  Allen  of  Salt  I^ake  City  was  born 
in  Girard,  Erie  county.  Pa.,  September  8 
1852;  was  trained  in  the  common  schools 
of  Girard;  fitted  for  college  at  Grand 
River  institute,  Austinburg,  Ohio,  and 
graduated  from  Western  Reserve  college 
with  the  class  of  1877;  taught  one  year 
at  Grand  River  institute,  and  then  was 
principal   of  the  preparatory  of  Western 


Reserve  college  three  years;  came  to  Salt 
Lake  City,  Utah,  in  August,  1881,  wiiere 
he  was  an  instructor  in  Salt  Lake  acad- 
emy until  1886,  when  he  resigned  and  en- 
tered upon  the  business  of  mining;  was 
elected  to  and  served  in  the.  territorial 
legislatures  of  1888,  1890  and  1894;  was 
elected  county  clerk  of  Salt  Lake  county 
in  August,  1890,  and  served  ui^til  January 
1,  1893;  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Salt 
Lake  City  in  1892;  was  the  Liberal  candi- 
date for  delegate  to  congress  in  1892;  was 
elected  to  the  Fifty-fourth  congress  as  a 
Republiioan  af  the  special  election  held 
November  5,  1895,  to  vote  upon  the  con- 
stitution of  the  proposed  State  of  Utah 
and  for  the  selection  of  the  officers  there- 
of; took  his  seat  in  the  house  of  represen- 
tatives January  7,  1896. 


REPRESENTATIVE       NEBEKER,       OP 
RICH. 

Aquila  Nebeker,  Democratic  represen- 
tative from  Rich  county,  is  the  son  of 
John  and  Lurena  Nebeker,  pioneers  of 
1847.  He  was  born  June  17,  1859.  in  Salt 
Lake  City.  When  a  boy  he  attended  the 
ward  schools  until  1872,  when  he  entered 
the  University  of  Utah,  taking  a  course 
in  general  science  and  mathematics. 
After  graduating  in  1876,  he  went  to 
southern  Utah  and  began  business  life 
as  a  freighter  and  all  round  worker  in 
the  mining  camp  of  Silver  Reef.  In  the 
sumimer  of  1877  he  engaged  with  Hunter 
and  Goss  as  assayer  and  accountant  at 
their  amalgamating  mill  on  the  Rio 
Virgin  river.  He  worked  in  the  same 
capacity  for  the  Stormont  Mining  and 
Milling  company  and  also  for  Colonel  E. 
A.  Wall  until  1880,  when  he  with  some 
Salt  Lakers  formed  a  company  for  min- 
ing and  smelting  copper  ore  in  northern 
Arizona.  After  developing  the  Red  Cloud 
mine  the  company,  for  which  Mr.  Ne- 
beker was  superintendent,  was  silenced 
by  the  slump  of  1883  in  the  price  of  cop- 
per. 

He  married  Hortense  Haight,  a  daugh- 
ter of  I.  C.  Haight,  of  Toquerville,  in  1§79, 
and  with  his  family  moved  to  Rich  coun- 
ty in  1884,  took  up  a  ranch  and  has  since 
been  engaged  in  ranching,  combined  with 
cattle  raising. 

When  the  division  came  Mr.  Nebeker 
allied  himself  with  the  Democratic  party. 
He  has  served  Rich  county  as  surveyor 
and  attorney,  and  has  also  been  in  the 
legislature  four  sessions.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  constitutional  convention,  and 
was  so  dissatisfied  with  the  general  trend 
of  the  actions  of  that  body  that  he  voted 
against  nearly  every  article  adopted  in 
the  constitution.  He  also  distinguished 
Himself  by  leading  a  movement  to  unite 
all  the  higher  educational  institutions 
under  one  head,   making  no  point  as    to 


S.    W.    MORRISON. 


J.     M.      BOLITHO. 


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N.    J.    HARRIS. 


HARRY  GUSHING. 


THE   STATE   OF   UTAH. 


where  the  location  should  be,  but  worked 
for  the  idea  of  uniting  in  the  interest  of 
efficiency. 

Mr.  Nebeker  is  a  free  coinage  man, 
and,  to  put  it  in  his  own  language,  "don't 
believe,  in  the  cheap  dollar  of  John  Sher- 
man under  any  circumstances,"  but 
stands  for  "cheap  money  and  dear  pro- 
duots." 


REPRESENTATIVE  CRITCHLOW. 

E.  B.  Critchlow  was  born  in  Red  Bone, 
Miss,,  October  2,  1858.  He  resided  with 
his  p-arents  at  Washington  college,  near 
Nachez,  where  his  father  was  professor, 
until  an  opportunity  was  afforded  by  the 
fall  of  Vicksburg  to  remove  to  western 
New  York.  He  attended  public  schools 
at  Tonawanda,  Erie  county,  in  that  state, 
until  1873,  when  he  came  to  Utah  to  join 
his  father,  who  for  many  years  held  the 
position  of  agent  of  the  Indians  at  Uin- 
tah valley.  He  was  prepared  for  college 
at  the  Salt  Lake  Collegiate  institute,  and 
entered  Princeton  in  1878,  graduating  in 
1882.  He  took  a  course  in  Columbia  law 
school,  and  returned  to  Salt  Lake  City 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1883.  He 
read  law  in  the  office  of  Sheeks  &  Raw- 
lins for  a  year. 

He  was  married  in  1886.  Is  a  member  of 
the  partnership  of  Rawlins  &  Critchlow, 
formed  in  1891.  Mr.  Critchlow  was  as- 
sistant United  States  attorney  of  the  ter- 
ritory during  1890  and  1891.  He  was  elect- 
ed to  the  house  of  representatives  a^  one 
of  the  Salt  Lake  delegation,  when  from 
the  outset  he  was  the  leader  of  the  Re- 
publican side,  and  though  strenuously  op- 
posed at  times  (as  often  by  members  of 
his  own  party  as  by  those  of  the  op- 
posite political  faith),  his  ideas  prevailed 
and  were  incorporated  in  the  bills  passed 
more  often  than  those  of  any  other  indi- 
vidual miember.  As  chairman  of  the  judi- 
ciary committee,  he  gave  evidence  of 
great  legal  attainments,  and  in  debate 
exerted  a  world  of  influence  over  his  col- 
leagues. In  the  laws  passed  by  the.  first 
State  legislature  the  people  of  Utah  owe 
much  to  the  ability,  energy  and  honesty 
of  Mr.  Critchlow. 


REPRESENTATIVE    LEWIS. 

T.  D.  Lewis  was  born  at  Salt  Lake  City 
September  15,  1865.  After  attending  the 
public  schools  of  the  city,  he  entered  the 
University  of  Utah,  and  in  1886  graduated 
with  the  degree  of  bachelor  of  science, 
being  one  of  the  first  to  receive  a  degree 
from  that  institution.  During  the  winter 
of  1886-7  Mr.  Lewis  taught  school,  and  in 
the  fall  of  1887  became  deputy  county  re- 
corder of  Salt  Lake  county.  "In  October, 
1888,  he  entered  the  department  of  the 
University  of  Michigan,  and  spent  the 
school  year  in  special  work  in  political 
science,   history  and  language.     The  next 


year  he  entered  the  department  of  law, 
and  took  the  degree  of  bachelor  of  law 
in  1891.  Since  that  time  he  has  practiced 
law  in'  Salt  Lake  City,  He  has  always 
taken  an  active  part  in  politics,  and  was 
on  the  Republican  committee  for  Salt 
Lake  City  from  1891  till  the  fall  of  1895, 
when  he  was  elected  to  the.  house  of  rep- 
resentatives of  the  first  State  legislature. 
He  was  chairman  of  the  committee  on 
elections,  in  which  capacity  he  rendered 
marked  service  in  perfecting  the  election 
laws  passed,  and  he  was  equally  as  valu- 
able as  a  member  of  the  judiciary  com- 
mittee and  on  the  fioor. 


REPRESENTATIVE    GIBBS. 

William  H.  Gibbs  of  Portage,  Box  El- 
der county,  second  son  of  John  D.  and 
Julia  A.  Tompkins  Gibbs,  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 7,  1851,  at  Haverford,  West  Pem- 
brokeshire. South  Wales.  He  attended 
school  till  12  years  old,  when  he  left  there 
with  his  parents,  May  30,  1863,  in  the  sail- 
ing- vessel  Cynosure.  Arriving  in  New 
York  in  July  and  crossing  the  plains  by 
ox  team,  the  family  arrived  in  Salt  Lake 
October  6,  of  the  same.  year.  The  family 
settled  in  Willard  City,  where  young 
Gibbs  again  attended  school,  going  in  win- 
ter and  working  out  in  summer.  In  1869 
the  family  moved  to  Portage,  where  Mr. 
Gibbs  helped  to  build  the  second  house. 
He  also  drove  the  team  whicn  plowed  the 
first  furrow  for  the  Samaria  Lake  Irri- 
gating company's  ditch.  He  was  a  oi- 
rector  in  that  company  four  years;  was 
chosen,  in  1877,  second  councilor  to  Bishop 
O.  C.  Harkins;  held  the  position  of  con- 
stable two  years;  justice  of  the  peace  six 
years,  and  school  trustee  ten  years.  In 
1884  he  went  on  a  mission  to  the  southern 
states,  returning  in  1887.  When  the  divi- 
sion came,  Mr.  Gibbs  joined  the  Republi- 
can party.  He  was  nominated  for  county 
selectman  in  1892,  and  defeated;  again  in 
1894  for  the  constitutional  convention,  was 
elected,  and  did  good  service  in  that  body; 
was  elected  to  represent  Box  Elder  in  the 
first  State  legislature.  He  was  m^arried  in 
1872  to  Letitia  John,  and  thirteen  children 
were  born  to  them,  ten  of  whom  are  liv- 
ing. Mr.  Gibbs  is  a  successful  farmer  and 
&tock  raiser. 


UNITED    STATES    SENATOR    BROWN. 

United  States  Senator  Arthur  Brown 
was  born  in  the  spring  of  1843,  on  a  farm 
near  Schoolcraft,  Kalamazoo  county, 
Michigan.  When  he  was  13  years  old, 
his  father  and  mother,  being  anxious  to 
educate  their  daughters,  had  heard  of 
Antiochi  college,  then  opened  by  Horace 
Mann  at  Yellow  Springs,  Ohio,  which  was 
the  first  regular  college  that  admitted 
girls  to  Its  curriculum  on  tne  Siine  terms  as 


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THE   STATE  OF  UTAH. 


boys,  and  to  the  higher  degrees  and  cul- 
ture. Mr.  Brown's  parents  moved  there 
in  1856,  and  as  a  little  boy  he  was  allowed 
to  go  to  school  to  that  institution,  where 
he  graduated  in  1862.  From  there  he  went 
to  Ann  Arbor,  Michigan,  taking  a  higher 
academical  course  and  studied  law,  re- 
ceiving the  second  degree,  A.  M.,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  the  spring  of  1864. 

Mr.  Brown  went  bax3k  to  his  na-tive 
county,  Kalamazoo,  and  at  that  place 
commenced  practicing  law,  where  he  re- 
mained until  1879,  during  which  time  he 
had  built  up  a  very  large  practice  through- 
out western  Michigan.  Years  of  contin- 
ued ill-health,  however,  convinced  Mr. 
Brown  that  it  would  be  better  for  him  to 
move  to  a  mountainous  country.  He  ac- 
cordingly moved  to  Salt  Lake  City  in 
1879  and  at  once  entered  the  practice  of 
law  in  such  a  manner  that  he  is  now  well 
known  and  his  capacities  need  no  com- 
ment to  anybody  in  Utah.  From  his  first 
advent  to  Utah  Mr.  Brown  always  be- 
lieved in  organizing  the  Republican  party 
as  independent  from  the  Liberal  party. 
He  took  an  active  part  in  all  its  work 
long  before  the  division  movement,  and 
was  among  the  very  few  who  first  engag- 
ed in  organizing  what  is  known  as  the 
dlvisiion  movemient.  In  procuring  recog- 
niitik>ni  of  the  Territorial  committee  as 
orgianized  by  that  movement,  Mr.  Brown 
was  especially  active  and  prominent,  as 
in  other  work  tending  to  build  up  Repub- 
licanisim. 

Mr.  Brown  was  elected  to  the  Unted 
States  senate  January  21st,  1896,  by  the 
Republican  members  of  the  first  State 
legislature. 


SECRETARY  JAMES  T.   HAMMOND. 

Secretary  of  State  James  T.  Hammond, 
son  of  Hon.  Milton  D.  and  Louisa  M. 
Hammond,  was  bom  December  11,  1856, 
at  Farmington,  Davis  county,  Utah. 
When  he  was  8  years  of  age  his  parents 
removed  to  Cache  county,  where  he  has 
resided  ever  since.  He  is  a  product  of  the 
public  school  system  of  the  Territory. 
Upon  leaving  school  in  the  spring  of  1875 
he  took  up  the  study  of  law  during  his 
leisure  moments  while  employed  as  sales- 
man and  bookkeeper  in  a  mercantile  es- 
tablishment. In  1877  he  was  appointed 
clerk  of  the  probate  and  county  courts  of 
Cache  county,  a  position  he  filled  with 
credit  until  1883,  when  he  was  elected  to 
the  legislative  council  of  the  Territory  of 
Utah,  and  was  a  member  of  the  judiciary 
committee  of  that  session.  In  1884  he 
married  an  estimable  lady  in  the  person 
of  Leonora  Blair.  In  1888  Mr.  Hammond 
was  employed  by  the  legislative  assembly 
as  one  of  a  special  committee  of  three  to 
compile  the  laws   of  Utah  then  in   force. 


Mr.  Hammond  was  returned  to  the  legis- 
lature in  1886  and  also  in  1890,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  judiciary  committee  in 
both  sessions.  During  the  latter  session 
he  distinguished  himself  by  his  brilliant 
leadership  of  the  People's  party  side  in  the 
house.  It  was  also  during  this  session 
that  Mr  Hammond  led  the  movement 
in  favor  of  free  schools.  Wlaile  Mr.  Ham- 
mond is  a  lawyer  by  profession  he  has 
always  manifested  the  greatest  interest 
in  agricultural  matters.  He  was  one  of 
the  organizers  and  a  member  of  the  first 
board  of  trustees  of  the  Agricultural  Col- 
lege of  Utah.  He  was  a  member  and  vice- 
president  of  the  Constitutional  convention 
of  1887  and  has  filled  other  offices  of  trust 
and  honor. 

Mr.  Hammond  has  been  a  practicing  at- 
torney since  1880  and  was  employed  as 
counsel  in  a  number  of  important  cases 
in  the  Territory.  He  is  young  in  years 
but  old  in  experience,  a  man  who  has  al- 
ways done  his  duty  in  a  conscientious 
manner,  is  a  Republican  and  a  man  who 
fills  the  office  of  siecretary  of  state  with 
credit  and  honor. 


STATE    TREASURER    CHIPMAN. 

State  Treasurer  James  Chipman  was 
born  in  Carroll  county,  Missouri,  in  1839. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  band  of  pioneers 
who  braved  the  wilds  of  the  western  fton- 
tier  and  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  1847. 
One  year  later  he  removed  to  Mill  Creek 
where  he  remained  two  years.  His  first 
business  was  hat  of  farming  and  stock- 
raising  and  keeping  a  trading  post  on  the 
Eighth  Ward  Square  in  Salt  Lake  City. 
In  1861  he  freighted  with  oxen  and  mules 
between  Montana  and  California.  In  1872 
he  delivered  5,000  cords  of  wood  to  the 
Millar  company  and  a  part  of  the  wood 
still  remains  at  the  old  smelter,  where  it 
was  placed  by  the  hands  of  Mr.  Chipman 
nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century  ago.  From 
this  year  dates  his  business  career.  He, 
in  company  with  C.  M.  Redfield  and 
Worthy  Nash,  engaged  in  a  general  mer- 
chandise business  at  a  mining  camp  in 
Utah  county.  When  the  camp  went  down 
he  purchased  the  entire  stock  and. removed 
it  to  American  Fork,  and  thus  established 
the  business  known  as  the  Chipman  Mer- 
cantile company.  He  owns  mines  in  most 
of  the  mining  camps  of  Utah.  In  1892 
he  established  the  Bank  of  American 
Fork,  of  which  he  is  president.  He  is  also 
president  of  the  following  enterprises. 
The  Chipman  Mercantile  company,  the 
York  Mining  company,  the  Consolidated 
Mining  company,  and  the  American  Fork 
Canyon  Wagon  Road  company.  He  was 
the  projector  and  one  of  the  incorporators 
of   the   Utah    Sugar   company   and    to   his 


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great  financial  ability  is  mainly  due  the 
success  which  has  come  to  these  enter- 
prises. 

Mr.  Chipman  has  held  many  positions  of 
honor  and  trust.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
school  board  of  American  Fork  in  1870 
was  elected  to  the  city  council  in  1873| 
in  1875  and  again  in  1891.  In  1893  he  was 
elected  to  the  mayoralty  of  the  city;  was 
appointed  postmaster  in  1889  and  held  the 
position  until  1894.  When  the  division  was 
made  on  national  party  lines  Mr.  Chip- 
man  was  the  only  Republican  to  be 
found  in  American  Fork  and  it  is  to  his 
indomitable  will  and  courageous  effort 
that  the  effectual  organization  of  the 
party  in  American  Fork  is  due.  His  elec- 
tion to  the  important  office  of  State  treas- 
urer by  the  party  he  has  so  faithfully 
supported  came  with  good  grace,  and  no 
mistake  was  made  when  they  placed  the 
mantle  of  honor  upon  his  shoulders. 


engineered  the  counties  government  bill  to 
passage,  as  chairman  of  the  counties'  com- 
mittee. It  was  over  this  bill  'that  the 
most  heated  controversies  of  the  session 
arose. 


REPRESENTATIVE    LARSEN. 

Marinus  Larsen  was  born  in  Fruerlund, 
Als  Sogu,  Aulborgn  Amt,  Denmark,  No- 
vember 15.  1849.  He  came  to  Utah  with 
his  parents  and  settled  in  Spanish  Fork, 
September  27,  1862,  and  has  resided  there 
ever  since.  He  was  married  to  Johannah 
Johnson  December  20,  18G9.  He  has  cross- 
ed the  plains  three  times  with  ox  teams. 
He  has  been  a  member  of  the  city  coun- 
cil of  Spanis.h  Fork  four  terms  and  mayor 
two  terms;  went  out  of  office  there  Jan- 
uary 1,  1896,  and  at  that  time  Spanish 
Fork  City  did  not  owe  one  cent  to  any 
man  or  company. 


REPRESENTATIVE   MORRILL. 

Charles  Morrill,  representative  from 
Piute  county,  was  one  of  the  best  liked 
members  on  the  Republican  side.  Thor- 
oughly well  informed,  he  was  not  addict- 
ed to  the  "talk"  habit  and  so  was  able  to 
act  intelligently  on  all  measures  with- 
out boring  his  colleagues. 

He  was  born  in  Cedar  City,  Iron  county. 
May  13,  1854,  and  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools.  For  nine  years,  ending 
January  1,  1894,  he  was  sheriff  of  Piute 
county,  making  an  excellent  record  in  that 
position.  He  was  an  original  divisionist 
and  posted  with  his  own  hand  the  first 
call  for  and  helped  to  organize  the  first 
Republican  club  in  Piute  county  after  the 
division   movement   began. 

He  has  been  married  twice,  first  in  1874, 
his  wife  dying  eight  years  later.  In  1893 
he  re-married.  His  family  consists  of  a 
daughter  by  his  first  wife  and  a  son  by 
his  second  wife. 

He  was  chairman  of  the  county  com- 
mittee from  1891  until  nominated  for  repre- 
sentative of  the  Twenty-first  district.  Mr. 
Morrill  distinguished  himself  in  the  house 
by    the    successful    manner    in    which    he 


REPRESENTATIVE    MONSON. 

Joseph  Monson  was  born  in  Logan 
Cache  county,  Utah,  of  parents  C.  N.  and 
Annie  C.  Monson.  In  1863  in  connection 
with  his  parents,  he  removed  to  Rich- 
mond, Cache  county,  Utah,  where  he  has 
since  resided.  His  childhood  days  were 
spent  at  home,  being  employed  at  such 
labor  as  he  was  able  to  perform  in  the 
summer  time  and  attending  the  district 
schools  in  the  winter.  At  the  age  of  12 
years,  he  commenced  as  an  apprentice 
with  his  father  as  a  carpenter;  in  course 
of  a  few  years  he  was  recognized  as  an 
efficient    mechanic   and    draughtsman. 

In  1876  he  entered  the  Brigham  Young 
college  at  Logan,  where  he  attended  school 
in  the  winter  and  worked  with  his  father 
at  his  trade  in  the  summer;  graduating 
from  said  college  in  such  branches  as 
were  taught  at  that  time  in  1879.  During 
the  major  portion  of  the  time  from  1880 
to  1883  he  worked  on  the  Logan  temple  as 
a  carpenter. 

In  March,  1883,  in  behalf  of  the  Mormon 
church,  he  was  called  upon  a  mission  to 
Norway,  leaving  Salt  Lake  City  April  10th 
of  that  year,  and  returning  to  Utah  on 
July  8,   1885. 

On  October  15,  1886,  he  was  married  to 
Miss  Laura  Larsen. 

In  1891,  when  the  division  on  national 
party  lines  was  inaugurated,  Mr.  Monson 
allied  himself  with  the  Democratic  party, 
for  which  he  has  been  an  ardent  worker 
from  that  time  until  the  present. 

In  February,  1892,  he  was  elected  on  the 
Democratic  ticket  a  member  of  the  city 
council  of  Richmond,  serving  as  such  un- 
til January  1.   1894. 

In  November,  1893,  he  was  elected  as  a 
representative  from  the  First  representa- 
tive district  to  the  Thirty-first  session  of 
the  Territorial  legislature. 

In  September,  1895,  he  was  chosen  chair- 
man of  the  Democratic  central  committee 
of  Cache  county,  and  is  also  ex-officio 
member  of  the  State  Democratic  central 
committee. 

In  November,  1895,  Mr.  Monson  was 
elected  representative  to  the  first  legisla- 
ture of  the  State  of  Utah,  from  the  Second 
representative    district. 

REPRESENTATIVE    SHAFER. 

Representative  John  H.  Shafer,  of  Grand 
county,  is  45  years  of  age,  having  first 
s-een  the  light  of  day  in  Salt  Lake  City  in 
18.51.  He  was  educated  in  the  Salt  Lake 
schools  and  at  the  early  age  of  17  began 
the  battle  of  life  as  a  freighter.    This  oc- 


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cupation  he  followed  for  several  years, 
going  to  Grand  county  eighteen  years  ago 
and  having:  since  been  engaged  there  in 
farming  and  stockraising.  Ever  since  the 
organization  of  the  county,  Mr.  Shafer 
has  been  one  of  its  selectmen,  but  this 
was  his  first  experience  as  a  legislator. 

Mr.  Shafer  is  an  uncompromising  Re- 
publican, and  as  a  lawmaker  achieved 
considerable  success,  not  as  a  speaker, 
for  Mr.  Shafer  seldom  occupied  the  time 
of  the  house,  but  in  the  committee  room, 
where  his  presence  was  always  felt. 

He  was  married  in  1882  to  Miss  Mary 
Forbush  of  Juab  county,  and  has  five 
children. 


RFJPRESENTATIVE     SMOOT. 

Abraham  Owen  Smoot  was  born  in 
Sugar  House  ward.  Salt  Lake  county, 
Utah  Territory,  March  11,  1856.  Resided 
in  Salt  Lake  City  until  November,  1868, 
when  he  removed  to  Provo  with  his  fath- 
er, where  he  has  since  resided,  excepting 
during  part  of  1875  and  all  of  1876  and  1877. 
at  which  time  he  was  traveling  in  Europe 
as  an  elder  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ 
of  Latter-day  Saints. 

He  received  his  education  under  Dr. 
Karl  G.  Maeser  in  Salt  Lake  City,  a.nd  at 
the  Timpanogos  branch  of  the  Deseret 
University,  Provo. 

When  17  years  of  age  he  retired  from 
school  to  go  into  the  lumber  and  build- 
ing business  in  Provo,  which  he  success- 
fully conducted  in  partnership  with  Will- 
iam Paxman  until  he  left  for  England  in 
October,  1875.  Upon  his  return  to  Utah  in 
December,  1877,  he  accepted  an  appoint- 
ment as  deputy  assessor  and  collector  of 
Utah  county  under  Hon.  H.  H.  Cluff. 

In  October,  1878,  he  was  married  in  Salt 
Lake  City  to  Miss  Electa  Bullock,  who 
died  in  April,  1887. 

In  1878  he  was  elected  assessor  of  Utah 
county,  and  held  that  position  until  1880, 
when  he  resigned  to  take  the  management 
of  the  mercantile  department  of  the  Provo 
Woolen  Mills  company,  which  business 
he  conducted  for  one  year  to  the  entire 
satisfaction  of  the  oflEicers  of  that  insti- 
tution. 

In  January,  1881,  he  accepted  an  ap- 
pointment as  United  States  commissioner 
and  held  that  position  until  the  vigorous 
enforcement  of  the  Edmunds  law  began 
in  this  Territory,  when  he  resigned,  be- 
lieving it  inconsistent  tO'  remain  in  that 
office  when  his  sentiments  and  associa- 
tions were  opposed  to  the  law,  which  It 
became  his  duty,  while  in  that  position, 
to  enforce. 

In  1882,  he  was  elected  assessor  and  col- 
lector of  Utah  county,  which  office  he 
held  until     June,  1888,  when  he  resigrned. 

He  was  appointed  a  director  and  elected 
secretary   of   the   Territorial   Insane   Asy- 


lum in  1882,  and  held  the  latter  position 
until  1890,  when  he  was  succeeded  by  C. 
A.   Clark,   of  Provo. 

In  1884  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the 
Provo  City  council  as  alderman  from  the 
First  ward,  and  was  re-elected  in  1886. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  legislative 
council  of  1888  from  Utah  county. 

In  June,  1893,  he  was  again  appointed 
by  the  Supreme  Court  of  Utah  a  United 
States  commissioner,  but  press  of  private 
business  was  such  that  he  could  not  give 
the  proper  attention  to  the  duties  of  the 
office,  and  in  April,  1894,  he  resigned. 

In  May,  1893,  he  was  appointed  secretary 
of  the   Territorial   Insane  Asylum. 

In  1893  he  was  again  married  in  Salt 
Lake  City  to  Miss  Zena  Huntington,  of 
Springville,  Utah  county,  Utah. 

In  1895  he  was  chosen  as  one  (of  the  rep- 
resentatives of  the  legislature  of  the  new 
State  of  Uta.h  from  Utah  county. 

Mr.  Smoot  is  the  oldest  living  son  of 
the  late  Hon.  Abram  O.  Smoot,  one  of  the 
early  mayors  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  a 
grand  old  man  at  the  time  of  his  death, 
as  he  had  been  a  grand  man  through  life. 
Like  his  father,  the  present  bearer  of  the 
honored  name  is  an  unswerving  and  un- 
changeable Democrat. 


REPRESENTATIVE   DENNY. 
(Speaker  of   the  House.) 

Presley  Denny  was  born  in  the  state  of 
Ohio  nearly  fifty  years  ago.  He  went 
with  his  father's  family  to  Oregon  in 
1852,  attended  the  Willamette  university 
at  Salem,  and  graduated  in  1865.  He 
taught  school  for  a  while  and  studied  up 
on  law  in  the  meantime,  being  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  1868.  His  first  experiences  as 
a  lawyer  were  in  Portland,  Oregon,  where 
he  acquired  a  steadily  growing  practice 
till  1874,  when  the  growing  fame  of  Utah 
attracted  him,  and  he  came  here  and  lo- 
cated in  Beaver,  where  he  has  resided 
almost  continuously  tO'  the  present  time. 
Mr.  Denny's  practice  in  Beaver  has  been 
very  large,  especially  in  the  criminal 
branch,  in  which  he  has  been  conspicu- 
ously successful. 

Mr.  Denny's  brother  was  for  many 
years  the  representative  of  the  United 
States  in  Corea,  and  was  afterwards  ad- 
viser to  the  king  of  that  storm-beaten 
land,  at  a  high  salary.  His  name  was 
mentioned  in  the  newspapers  of  the  time 
more  frequently  than  that  of  any  other 
man. 

Mr.  Denny  is  a  married  man,  his  wife 
being  a  daughter  of  Major  James  Low,  an 
old-time  and  highly  respected  citizen  of 
Beaver. 

Mr.  Denny  was  elected  to  the  house  of 
representatives  from  Beaver  county,  and 
was  chosen  unanimously  by  the  Republi- 
can  majority    as    speaker   of   the    house.. 


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The  members  testified  to  their  esteem 
of  his  services  in  that  capacity  by  pre- 
senting- him  with  two  handsome  g-ifts  on 
the  last  day  of  the  session — a  gold  watch 
from  his  Republican  colleagues  and  a 
gold-headed  cane  from  the  Democratic 
side.  Mr.  Denny's  distingTiishing-  effort 
for  his  county  was  an  endeavor  to  secure 
an  appropriation  for  a  normal  school  at 
Fort  Cameron. 


REPRESENTATIVE   LEMMON. 

Hyrum  Demmon  was  born  in  Adams 
county,  Illinois,  November  23,  1849.  He 
oame  to  Utah  with  his  parents  in  1852. 
The  early  part  of  his  life  was  spent  on 
the  home  farm  in  Mill  Creek,  Salt  Lake 
county.  He  graduated  in  the  normal 
class  of  the  University  of  Deseret  in  1876, 
after  which  he  taught  school  some  years. 
Was  elected  mayor  of  Payson  in  1891,  and 
again  in  1893.  Was  a  member  of  the  con- 
stitutional convention,  and  in  the  fall  of 
1895  was  elected  to  represent  Utah  county 
as  one  of  its  four  representatives.  His 
seat  was  stubbornly  contested  by  his  Re- 
publican opponent,  but  the  house  eventu- 
ally seated  him.  Mr.  Lemmon  was  one  of 
the  quiet,  conservative  hard-thinking  and 
hard-working  members  of  the  house. 


REPRESENTATIVE  RADDATZ. 
E.  J.  Raddatz  was  born  in  the  city  of 
Stettin,  Prussia,  October  5,  1857.  His  pa- 
rents and  whole  family  settled  in  St. 
Charles  county,  Missouri,  in  1868.  He  had 
a  public  school  education,  and  private 
teachers,  until  the  age  of  16,  when  he 
went  to  St.  Louis  and  engaged  in  the  mer- 
cantile business  as  a  clerk;  in  1875  he 
went  west  to  Denver,  and  after  va- 
ried experiences  engaged  in  mining  and 
milling  throughout  Colorado,  New  Mex- 
ico and   Old   Mexico,   until    the  winter   of 

1885,  when    he    came    to    Utah,      In    May, 

1886,  he  took  charge  of  the  Calumet  mines 
and  Silver  King  mines  at  Stockton,  Utah, 
and  superintended  the  mining  interests  of 
the  St.  Louis  Stamping  company  of  St. 
Louis  for  six  years  until  those  mines 
closed,  down  in  1892.  since  which  time  he 
has  been  working  his  own  properties  in 
Stockton  and  Mercur.  He  is  largely  in- 
terested in  the  latter  place,  in  such 
groups  as  the  Bonanza  No.  2,  Jones  Bo- 
nanza, Glencoe,  Lyon,  Eagle,  Hercules 
and  others. 

Was  married  on  June  4,  1890,  to  Emma 
Guth  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  and  has  resided 
with  his  family  in  Stockton  ever  since. 
He  has  two  children,  both  girl  voters. 

REPRESENTATIVE  LOWRY. 
John   Lowry,    Sr.,    one  of   the   two  rep- 
representatives  from  Sanpete   county,  was 
born   in    Louis     county,     Missouri,     Jan- 


uary 31  1829.  When  four  years  old 
his  parents  removed  to  Jackson  count- 
ty.  After  residing  there  for  some 
time,  he,  with  his  parents,  began  an  al- 
most continual  flig'ht  of  migration  from 
Jackson  county  to  Clay  county,  from  Clay 
county  to  Caldwell,  from  there  to  Lee 
TOunty,  Iowa.  Then  from  Lee  county  to 
w^^^r^^r^^^"?*^'  ^'^^  *^^^  to  the  famo  IS 
Hi  n^.J^'^^''^^''^-.  ^^  ^°°"  ^e^  the  Win- 
ter Quarters  and  came  to  Great  Salt 
Lake  valley  in  the  autumn  of  1847 

This  condition  of  affairs  broug^ht'him  in 
S^ol^^J  "^^l?.^^^  ^tern  realitif s  cf  pio^ 
neer  life  and  developed  courage  and  mari- 
il^  •  J^e,had  meager  chances  of  F.Uend- 
L^?.^  f  '^  y%^  ^^.  ^^s  always  been  an 
ardent  student  and  possesses  a  sto-e  of 
^^°r^^^tion  and  much  common  sense. 

While  most  of  his  Mfe  has  been  ? i.ent  on 
the  frontiers,  he  has  continually  occupied 
positions  of  honor  and  trust  Ve  w'j"  a 
member  of  the  party  denominated  as  the 

Minute  Company"  under  Captain  Gecrge 

S"f\"  ;v,^"?  i?""^  ?^^t  in  the  u'-st  l-Mtle 
with   the  Indians  in    Utah. 

He  was  one  of  the  pioneers  to  Manti, 
Sanpete  county,  in  1849,  and  in  the  same' 
year  was  called  upon  again  to  accompany 
an  exploring  party  to  southern  Utah  un- 
der the  leadership  of  Parley  P.  Pratt. 
While  on  this  expedition  he  suffered  a 
great  many  hardships  never  to  be  for- 
gotten by  himself  and  that  noted  oarty 
Had  It  not  been  for  his  superior  physical 
strength  and  endurance  some  of  the  com- 
pany would  have  perished. 

On  his  return  he  married  Miss  Sarah 
Jane  Brown,  and  has  reared  a  large  and 
exemplary   family.  e.     <^   ^ 

He  was  a  member  of  the  first  city 
council  of  Manti  and  served  two  terms  in 
succession  there.  Since  that  time  he  haa 
also  been  a  member  of  that  council,  and 
IS  at  present. 

In  the  summer  of  1885  he  went  to  Grand 
nver  and  helped  build  a  fort  in  Little 
Grand  valley.  The  party  was,  however, 
driven  out  by  the  savage  red  men,  and 
three  of  the  party  were  killed. 

March  20.  1855,  he  was  commissioned  by 
Brigham  Young,  who  was  then  governor 
of  Utah,  as  paymaster  of  the  battalion  of 
infantry  of  Sanpete  military  district. 

Since  the  division  on  party  lines  in  Utah 
he  has  been  an  untiring  worker  for  the 
principles  of  Republicanism.  At  present 
he  is  the  chairman  of  the  Sanpete  county 
Republican  executive  committee,  and  his 
skill  was  shown  November  5,  in  making 
Sanpete  Republican  by  a  large  majority. 

REPRESENTATIVE    STEVENS. 

Thomas  J.  Stevens  was  born  in  Bristol, 
England,  January  24,  1848,  and  with  his 
parents  arrived  in  Utah  November  3,  1864, 


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the  journey  occupying-  five  months.  In 
his  native  country  he  received  a  comimon 
school  education,  and  also  served  two 
years  of  apprenticeship  in  learning  the 
blacksmith's  trade,  heing  descended  from 
a  race  of  mechanics.  In  his  new  Amer- 
ican home  he  continued  to  work  at  his 
trade  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  later  for  the 
Union  Pacific,  entering  the  service  of 
the  latter  company  when  its  line  was 
only  a  few  miles  west  of  Laramie,  Wyo., 
to  which  point  he  proceeded  by  mule 
team.  TMs  was  in  May,  1868,  and  in  De- 
cember, 1869,  he  returned  to  Salt  Lake 
City,  where  he  took  out  his  naturaliza- 
tion papers,  and  in  December,  1871,  mar- 
ried Miss  Maria  Stringham,  daughter  of 
Briant  Stringham,  one  Oif  the  earliest 
Utah   pioneers. 

In  1873,  with  his  wife,  he  went  with  one 
of  the  first  colonies  called  to  settle  in 
Arizona,  proceeding  beyond  the  Moan- 
coppy,  but  not  quite  so  far  as  the  Little 
Colorado,  where,  later  settlements  were 
established.  The  colonists  of  that  early 
date   were  all    compelled   to   return. 

In  1878  he  removed  permanently  to  Og- 
den,  where  in  connection  with  his  brother 
he  opened  a  foundry  and  machine  shop. 
In  that  city  he  ha^  since  resided,  and 
from  there  was  sent  to  the  first  Utah 
State  legislature,  as  a  Republican,  he 
having  joined  the  party  when  the  divi- 
sion on  national  party  lines  first  came 
to  the  people  of  Utah.  In  the  house  of 
which  he  was  a  member  he  occupied  the 
position  of  chairman  of  the  commitees 
on  education  and  militia,  besides  serving 
as  a  member  of  the  committees  on  appro- 
priations, claims  and  public  accounts,  and 
manufactures  and  comm*^rce. 

He  has  held  the  civil  office  of  sheriff  of 
Weber  county,  being  electeri  in  August, 
1883,  and  that  of  city  recorder  of  Ogden. 
being  elected  in  1883  and  re-elected  in  188.T 
and  1887.  He  also  served  as  treasurer  of 
the  territorial  reform  school  and  as  a 
member  of  the  educational  board  of  the 
Weber  Stake  academy.  He  has  also  seen 
military  service,  being  second  lieutenant 
of  militia  in  1867,  when  with  his  com- 
mand he  took  the  field  for  five  months 
(without  pay)  in  the  Blackhawk  Indian 
war.  which  threatened  the  extermination 
of  the  white  settlers  in  Sanpete  and  Se- 
vier counties.  When  the  National  Guard 
of  Utah  was  organized  under  the  terri- 
torial militia  law.  he  was  appoined  com- 
missary general  (with  the  rank  of  colo- 
nel) on  the  staff  of  the  commander-in- 
chief. 


REPRESENTATIVE  HARRIS. 

Nathan  J.   Harris  was  born   in   Harris- 

ville,  Weber  county,  in  1864.     He  is  a  son 

of  the  late  Martin  H.  Harris,  one  of  the 

early  pioneers  of  Weber  county,  in  honor 


of  whom  Harrisville  received  its  name. 
He  remained  on  the  farm  until  he  be- 
came o.f  age.  His  early  education  was 
received  in  the  district  schools  and  in  the 
Central  school  at  Ogden,  where  he  at- 
tended two  winters.  In  1884  he  attended 
the  University  of  Deseret,  completing  the 
regular  normal  course  in  1886.  On  June 
15,  1887,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Emma 
Oakason  of  Salt  Lake  City,  After  leaving 
school  he  was  engaged  in  school  teaching 
and  farming  till  the  fall  of  1892,  when  he 
moved  with  his  family  to  Ann  Arbor  to 
attend  the  University  of  Michigan.  He 
was  graduated  from  the  law  department 
of  that  institution  with  the  class  of  '94, 
consisting  of  nearly  three  hundred  mem- 
bers, ten  of  Utah's  sons  being  among 
the  number.  After  his  return  home  he 
opened  a  law  office  at  Ogden,  Utah,  where 
he  is  still  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his 
chosen  profession,  having  formed  a  part- 
ner-ship with  J.  F.  McGregor  of  Parowan, 
one  of  his  classmates  at  Ann  Arbor.  Mr. 
Harris  is  Republican  in  politics  In  the  fall 
o-f  1895  he  was  elected  to  the  first  State 
legislature  from  Weber  county. 


REPRESENTATIVE    MAUGHAN. 

Peter  M.  Maug'han,  Democratic  member 
to  the  house  of  representatives  from 
Cache  county,  was  born  Octotoe  18,  1858, 
at  E.  T.   City,  Tooele  county,  Utah. 

He  is  the  oldest  son  of  Bishop  William 
H.  Maughan  and  Barbara  Morgan,  and 
grandson  of  Peter  Maughan,  who  to- 
gether with  his  father  and  uncle,  John 
Maughan,  George  Bryan  and  others  were 
the  pioneers  of  Cache  valley,  having  first 
settled  at  Weilsville,  by  the  request  of 
President  Brigham  Young,  in  the  fall  of 
1856. 

His  early  life  was  spent  on  the  farm, 
and  he  never  had  the  privilege  of  acquir- 
ing a  collegiate  education,  so  that  what 
education  he  possesses  was  attained  in 
the  district  schools  of  Weilsville  in  the 
winter  months,  while  he  followed  farm- 
ing in  the  summer. 

He  has  filled  several  important  positions 
of  trust  in  Weilsville  city  and  Cache 
county,  such  as  city  councilman  (two 
terms  of  two  years  each),  city  assessor 
for  several  years,  and  also  served  as  city 
justice  of  the  peace  one  term. 

At  the  time  of  the  division  on  party 
lines  he  concluded  to  ally  himself  with 
the  Democratic  party,  and  in  the  fall  of 
1892  was  the  Democratic  nominee  for 
county  assessor  of  Cache  county,  and 
was  elected  over  his  opponent  by  over 
400  votes,  and  as  his  record  will  show, 
made  the  county  assessment  during  1893 
and  1894  very  satisfactory  to  the  tax- 
payers of  Cache  county. 

For  several  years  he  had  the  general 
supervision  of  his  father's  affairs,   which 


A.    O.    SMOOT. 


V\  M   HOWARD. 


W.     W.     WILSON. 


CHAS.     MORRILL. 


THE   STATE   OF  UTAH. 


were  quite  extensive,  both  in  property 
and  family,  as  the  family  consisted  of 
nearly  fifty  memtoers. 

He  was  married  to  Miss  Jerusha  Bax- 
ter, a  very  highly  respected  young-  lady 
of  Wellsville,  the  daughter  of  Robert 
Baxter  and  Jane  Love,  at  Salt  Lake  City, 
February  23,   1882. 

He  was  elected  a  memtoer  of  the  first 
legislature  in  the  new  State  of  Utah  by 
the  Democratic  party  of  Cache  county 
over  his  opponent  by  a  large  majority, 
and  was  a  member  of  the  following  com- 
mittees, viz:  Judiciary,  counties,  private 
corporations,  capitol  and  capitol  grounds 
and   printing. 

REPRESENTATIVE  HOWARD. 

William  Howard  was  born  in  Belfast, 
Ireland,  January  13,  1847.  He  came  to 
Utah  with  his  parents  in  the  summer  of 
1853,  attended  the  schools  such  as  there 
were  in  Utah  in  the  fifties  and  early  six- 
ties, but  most  of  his  education  he  got  by 
study  at   home. 

He  was  appointed  second  lieutenant  in 
the  Nauvoo  legion  in  1865,  and  took  charge 
of  a  small  company  of  men  m  the  Black- 
hawk  Indian  war  in  Sanpete  in  1866,  when 
he   was   only  19  years   of  age. 

He  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  Peal  on 
December  21,  1868.  He  moved  to  and  set- 
tled in  Bear  River  valley  in  the  spring 
of  1870,  and  built  the  second  house  in 
Randolph,  the  county  seat  of  Rich  coun- 
ty. Whiile  living  there  he  held  the  posi- 
tions of  county  and  probate  clerk,  as- 
sessor and  collector,  county  recorder, 
county  prosecuting  attorney  and  notary 
public;  he  also  held  the  position  of  post- 
master from  1872  to  1880,  when  he  moved 
from  that  county  to  settle  in  Emery 
counjty.  He  superintended  the  building 
of  the  first  meeting  house  in  Emery  coun- 
ty in  the  fall  of  1880.  In  tne  fall  of  1888, 
at  a  cournty  convention,  he  was  elected 
chairman  of  the  People's  party  of  Emery 
county,  and  held  the  position  until  the 
people  divided  on  party  lines. 

He  has  held  the  position  for  the  last 
ten  years  of  statistical  correspondent  of 
the  United  States  agricultural  depart- 
ment. By  virtue  of  that  position  he  was 
appointed  and  received  a  commission  as 
a  member  of  the  World's  Congress  auxil- 
iaiT-  He  was  eleoted  November  6,  1894,  a 
member  of  the  constitutional  convention; 
he  attended  that  convention  and  never 
missed  one  meeting  during  the  sixty- 
eight  days  of  its  session,  and  missed  roll 
call  but  once.  He  signed  the  constitution 
of  Utah  at  forty-seven  minutes  past  12 
o'clock  on  the  8th  day  of  May,  1895. 

On  the  28th  day  of  April,  1895,  he  was 
appointed  a  United  States  court  commis- 
sioner by  Chief  Justice  Merritt.  He  was 
also  appointed  a  notary  public  by  Gov- 
ernor West  May  2,   1895. 

He  was  nominated  representative  of 
the  first  State  legislature  at  a  convention 
held    at    Orangeville    September    21,    1895, 


and  was  elected  as  a  Democrat  on  the 
5th  day  of  November  following. 

He  was  a  member  and  chairman  of  the 
delegation  to  the  Democratic  State  con- 
vention held  in  Ogden  September  5,  1895. 

On  March  9,  1896,  he  was  appointed  a 
commissioner  of  the  circuit  court  of  the 
United  States  within  and  for  the  district 
of  Utah,  by  Hon.  John  A.  Marshall,  Uni- 
ted States  district  judge  for  the  district 
of   Utah. 

REPRESENTATIVE  MANSFIELD. 

Hon.  Matthew  W.  Mansfield  of  Wayne 
county,  the  Twenty-second  representative 
district,  was  born  January  15,  1862,  at  St. 
George,  Washington  county,  Utah,  at 
which  place  he  resided  until  October,  1882. 
At  the.  latter  date  he  removed  to  Thurber, 
Wayne  county,  Utah,  where  he  has  con- 
tinued to  reside.  His  opportunities  of  ac- 
quiring an  education  were  limited  to  the 
instructions  'n  the  ordinary  branches 
taught  in  the  private  and  district  schools 
at  that  time.  In  February,  1882,  he  was 
married  to  Cena  A.  Hunt,  and  they  have 
five  living  children.  He  has  been  called 
into  public  life  to  a  considerable  extent 
for  a  young  man,  and  has  held  among 
others  the  following  civil  oflSces:  Justice 
of  the  peace,  assessor  and  collector,  pros- 
ecuting attorney,  surveyor  and  member 
of  the  constitutional  convention  of  1887. 

At  the  present  time  he  is  engaged  in 
the  mercantile,  farming,  lumbering  and 
sheep  and  cattle  raising  business.  In  No- 
vember, 1894,  he  was  called  to  the  office 
of  bishop  in  the  Mormon  church  to  pre- 
side over  the  Thurber  ward. 

Mr.  Mansfield  distinguished  himself  in 
the  house  as  a  leader  on  the  Democratic 
side,  and  made  many  brilliant  oratorical 
efforts,  notably  in  the  Lemmon  contest 
case,  when  he  spoke  in  favor  of  seating 
Mr.  Lemmon,  to  which  effort  was  un- 
doubtedly due,  in  large  part,  the  result 
of  the  case  in  seating  Mr.  Lemmon.  He 
was  an  earnest,  aggressive  legislator,  but 
never  carried  the  latter  characteristic  be- 
yond the  point  of  being  willing  to  agree 
to  a  compromise  when  he  could  not  se- 
cure his  full  purpose.  His  influence  was 
always  felt,  but  most  particularly  when 
such  important  bills  as  the  appropria- 
tions, revenue,  counties'  government,  etc., 
were  being  considered.  In  which  he  took 
a  deep  interest  and  a  determined  stand 
on   the  side  of  economy. 


REPRESENTATIVE    HEINER. 

Daniel  TTeiner  was  born  in  Pennsylvania 
November  27,  1850:  came  to  Utah  in  1859, 
and  has  resided  here  ever  since.  He  was 
married  in  Salt  Lake  in  1873;  has  spent 
most  of  his  life  on  ranch  and  farm.  Has 
held  several  civil  positions  in  Morgan 
county;  is  mayor  of  Morgan  City  at 
present.  Has  graduated  from  the  school 
of  experience,  among  the  sagebrush.    Mr. 


THE   STATE   OF   UTAH. 


Heiner  represented  Morgan  county  in  the 
first  State  legislature  and  proved  one  of 
the  most  consistent  members  of  the  Re- 
publican side,  consuming  but  little  time 
on  the  floor.  He  was  an  indefatigable 
committee  worker  and  his  vote  was  rare- 
ly if  every  recorded  on  the  side  farthest 
from  the  interests  of  the  people.  He  was 
the  author  of  the  fish  and  game  law  and 
th.e  live  stock  law,  which  were  considered 
i^iijong  the  mofcL  conservative  bills  passed. 


REPRESENTATIVE   BOLITHO. 

The  largest  Republican  majority  given 
in  the  fall  of  1895  by  Sevier  county's  elec- 
tors to  any  candidate  on  any  ticket  was 
129,  the  figure  which  elected  James  M, 
Bolitho  to  the  lower  house.  The  path  to 
Buch  a  victory  was  not  all  strewn  with 
roses  either.  Mr.  Bolitho  is  a  young  man 
in  Utah,  having  come  here  from  Iowa 
«ome  six  years  ago.  Sevier's  representa- 
tive is  young  in  the  world,  too,  for  he 
was  born  on  August  31,  1859,  at  Galena,  Jo 
Davies  county,   Illinois. 

From  his  tenth  year  until  he  reached 
his  majority,  young  Bolitho  worked  on  his 
father's  farm  in  the  State  of  Iowa.  He 
was  married  at  Hampton,  in  the  same 
State,  on  the  first  day  of  September,  1880, 
and  at  once  removed  to  Boone,  then  a 
thriving  railroad  town.  In  railroad  circles 
the  stripling  at  once  became  prominent. 
Starting  at  the  bottom,  he  rapidly  became 
a  trusted  locomotive  engineer,  and  was 
the  youngest  member  of  the  Brotherhood's 
Grand  Lodge.  He  made  repeated  trips  to 
the  State  capital  as  legislative  committee- 
man for  his  fraternity,  and  his  name  is 
connected  with  several  laws  which  now 
appear  among  the  statutes  of  that  State 
—all  of  them  made  in  behalf  of  laboring 
men. 

In  business  Mr.  Bolitho  has  made  a 
success.  For  the  first  six  months,  after 
coming  lo  Utah,  he  was  connected  with  the 
Rio  Grande  Western  as  locomotive  engin- 
eer, and  then  established  a  hardware 
house  in  Richfield.  In  addition  to  this, 
Mr.  Bolitho  owns  several  good  mining 
properties  in  the  Baldy  district,  is  inter- 
ested in  the  hot  springs  at  Joseph  City, 
Sevier  county,  and  is  the  landlord  of  a 
handsome  tract  near  Marysvale.  The 
Richfield  creamery  owes  its  success  large- 
ly to  Mr.  Bolitho,  who  was  elected  pres- 
ident of  its  first  board  of  directors. 

In  the  administration  of  municipal  af- 
fairs James  M.  Bolitho  has  always  had  a 
hand,  having  served  on  the  city  council 
of  Boone  when  but  24  years  of  age,  and 
having  been  appointed  councilman  for 
Richfield   in   1890. 

In  politics  Sevier's  representative  is  a 
strong  Republican  and  a  shrewd  and  hard 
worker.     From  the  time  he  was  22  years 


of  age  he  has  never  been  off  the  county 
central  committee  of  his  county,  and  dur- 
ing the  last  campaign  was  chairman  of 
the  Republican  central  committee  of  Se- 
vier county  and  the  county's  State  com- 
mitteeman. 

As  a  legislator  Mr.  Bolitho  added  fresh 
laurels  to  his  wreath.  He  was  the  author 
of  the  famous  anti-combine  bill  which 
created  such  consternation  among  the 
trusts  and  corporations,  the  bill  to  prevent 
the  sale  of  stock  under  fraudulent  pedi- 
grees, the  massive  county  government 
bill,  the  bill  to  prevent  blacklisting  of  dis- 
charged employees,  the  land  bill  and  num- 
erous others,  all  of  which  successfully 
"run  the  gauntlet"  and  are  now  laws  on 
Utah's  statute  books. 


REPRESENTATIVE    WILSON. 

William  Walker  Wilson  was  born  in 
Hull,  Yorkshire,  England,  September  18, 
1856.  His  education  was  acquired  under 
great  disadvantage;  his  parents  being 
poor,  he  was  taken  away  from  school 
when  but  10  years  of  age  and  set  to  work. 

He  emigrated  to  Utah  with  his  parents 
September  6,  1871,  arriving  in  Utah  Sep- 
tember 29th  the  same  year.  He  live4  in 
Salt  Lake  City  until  the  spring  of  ?877 
during  part  of  which  time  he  worked  »m 
a  hotel  boy  and  at  gardening.  In  the  fN^ 
of  18(3,  he  was  bound  apprentice  to  Wit" 
iam   Harrison,    tinner. 

He  moved  to  Sandy  in  December,  1871. 
since  which  time  he  has  been  engaged  iii 
farming  and  working  at  his  trade. 

He  was  married  to  Miss  Annie  Ostlund 
of  Sandy,  November  22,  1883,  at  Salt  Lake 
City. 

October  15,  1S85,  he  was  appointed  by 
the  county  court  justice  of  the  peace  for 
Sandy  precinct,  and  was  elected  to  said 
position  for  three  terms;  he  was  also 
elected  president  of  Sandy  Ditch  company 
April  3,  1891,  and  has  held  that  position 
ever  since.  He  was  until  1891  a  member 
of  the  People's  party,  but  after  the  dis- 
bandment  of  that  party  he  allied  himself 
with  the  Republicans,  and  was  one  of 
the  first  to  cast  a  Republican  voie  in  Sandy. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  county  com- 
mittee for  three  years,  took  a  prominent 
part  in  the  incorporation  of  Sandy  City, 
was  appointed  chairman  of  the  incorpora- 
tion committee,  and  after  a  hard  fight 
(being  defeated  twice),  succeeded  in  in- 
corporating that  city.  He  was  elected 
by  a  unanimous  vote  the  first  city  justice, 
and  has  served  two  terms.  Also  assisted 
to  establish  the  Sandy  Co-op. 

Mr.  Wilson  was  elected  to  the  first  State 
legislature  from  Sandy  as  one  of  the  rep- 
resentatives from  Salt  Lake  county. 


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REPRESENTATIVE      THOMPSON,      OF 
MILi^ARD. 

Omni  L.  Thompson,  of  Scipio,  was  born 
in  Bountiful,  Davis  county,  December  11, 
1864.  Was  educa,ted  in  tlie  B.  Y.  Academy 
and  graduated  with  high  honors  in  the 
mathematical  and  business  courses  of  that 
institution  in  1883.  Has  traveled  exten- 
sively in  Europe  and  the  United  States, 
and  the  experience  gained  there  together 
with  his  linowledge  of  affairs  as  they 
exist  in  the  State,  fitted  him  to  properly 
represent  the  people  of  this  district.  He 
was  married  in  Scipio  to  Miss  Susan 
Monroe  in  1888.  Is  engaged  in  stock  and 
mercantile  business  and  has  held  numer- 
ous positions  of  trust  and  honor  in  the 
town  where  he  lives  and  in  Millard  coun- 
ty. Has  always  taken  an  active  interest 
in  political  affairs,  and  at  the  time  of 
his  election,  was  chairman  of  the  Republi- 
can county  committee.  Mr.  Thompson 
represented  Millard  county, 

REPRESENTATIVE     ROBINSON. 

Joseph  Eldridge  Robinson  was  born  in 
Pinto,  Washington  county,  Utah,  Novem- 
ber 2G,  1867.  His  mother  died  when  he  was 
a.  babe  and  left  him  in  the  <care  of  her 
parents,  to  whose  training  he  attributes 
his  success  thus  far  in  life. 

In  December,  1890,  he  went  to  Kanab, 
Kane  county,  where  he  has  since  resided, 
engaging  in  the  sheep  and  mercantile  bus- 
iness. He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools,  except  one  winter  at  the  B.  Y. 
A.cademy  at  Provo.  December  21,  1891,  he 
married  Minnie  Knell,  of  Pinto,  and  a 
bright  boy  blesses  their  union. 

Mr.  Koblnson  was  a  member  of  the  State 
Constitutional  convention  held  in  Salt 
Lake  City  in  1895.  and  besides  several 
minor  civil  offices  has  served  his  con- 
stituents as  county  clerk  and  recorder, 
»ind  as  assessor  and  collector. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  elections  and 
rights  of  suffrage  committee  that  drafted 
the  article  in  the  State  constitution  giving 
the  right  of  suffrage  to  women,  and  is  an 
ardent  supporter  of  that  principle.  Mr. 
Flobinson  can  consistently  consider  his 
election  to  the  first  State  legislature  as 
commendatory  of  his  past  civil  services 
and  as  a  token  of  the  esteem  in  which 
he   is   held   by   his   constituents. 

He  was  the  youngest  member  of  the 
legislature.     He  represented  Kane  county. 

REPRESENTATIVE  FERGUSON,  OF 
CARBON. 
James  X.  Fergusson,  member  of  the 
lower  house  of  the  first  State  legislature, 
from  Carbon  county,  son  of  the  late  Gen. 
James  Ferguson,  was  born  in  Salt  Lake 
City,  December  31,  1852.  He  received  his 
education  in  the  common  schools  of  that 


city,  and  also  attended  Morgan's  Commer- 
cial night  school.  He  was  married  in 
Pueblo,  Colo.,  in  1889,  to  Miss  Jennie 
Cameron,  daughter  of  the  well  known  min- 
ing engineer,  James  R.  Cameron. 

For  the  past  twenty-five  years  he  has 
been  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits  in 
the  different  mining  camps  of  Utah.  The 
first  business  house  in  Park  City,  an  old 
log  cabin,  was  built  by  him  in  1873.  For 
ten  years  he  was  employed  in  Emery,  now 
Carbon  county,  seven  years  as  salesman 
for  Pleasant  Valley  and  Utah  Central 
uoal  company. 

He  has  several  times  been  elected  jus- 
tice of  the  peace,  and  in  1894  was  elected 
prosecuting  attorney  for  Carbon  county  by 
the  largest  majority  received  by  any  can- 
didate on  the  Republican  ticket. 

He  was  the  author  of  the  eight  hour 
law,  a  bill  to  prohibit  the  hiring  of  convict 
labor,  which  was  defeated,  the  law  pro- 
viding for  attorney's  fees  when  mechanics 
or  artisans  sue  ror  wages,  a  bill  to  protect 
employees  in  their  rights  to  belong  to 
labor  organizations,  which  passed  the 
house  and  was  defeated  in  the  senate; 
the  law  to  prohibit  the  employment  of 
child  labor  in  mines.  Mr.  Ferguson  was 
always  a  champion  of  labor' si  interests. 


REPRESENTATIVE      THOMPSON,      OF 
SANPETE. 

Peter  Thompson  was  born  at  Ephraim, 
Utah,  July  17,  1860.  He  received  his  edu- 
cation in  the  district  school,  and  by  close 
application  to  study  has  made  himself  the 
man   that   he  is   today. 

His  father  died  in  1875,  leaving  a  widow 
and  three  boys.  Peter,  the  eldest,  being 
a  lad  of  14,  almost  the  entire  care  and 
responsibility  of  the  family  fell  upon  his 
shoulders.  He  has  been  engaged  in  farm- 
ing and  stock  raising  ever  since  he  was 
old  enough  to  do  anything,  and  his  whole 
career  has  been  successful. 

In  1890  he  was  elected  to  the  city  coun- 
cil of  Ephraim  on  the  Citizens'  ticket. 
When  the  division  movement  came,  he 
allied  himself  with  the  Republican  party, 
and  has  since  1891  been  a  member  of  the 
executive  county  committee  and  a  faith- 
ful adherent  to  the  party  of  protection. 
He  has  the  last  two  years  served  the  city 
of  Ephraim  as  mayor,  giving  universal 
satisfaction.  He  was  elected  justice  of 
the  peace  for  Ephraim  city  in  1892.  He 
has  been  a  director  of  the  Ephraim  Co-op. 
for  the  past  three  years,  and  is  interested 
in  various  other  business  enterprises. 

He  married  Miss  Senia  Anderson,  daugh- 
ter of  Bishop  L.  S.  Anderson,  in  1886.  at 
Logman.  She  died  one  year  later,  leaving 
a  boy,  who  died  at  six  years  of  age.  In 
October,  1892,  he  married  Miss  Maria  Pe- 
terson.    They  have  two  children,  girls. 


THE   STATE   OF   UTAH. 


Mr.  Thompson  was  one  of  the  Sanpete 
county  representatives  in  the  first  State 
legislature. 


REPRESENTATIVE  GUSHING. 

Harry  M.  Gushing,  member  of  the  lower 
house,  was  born  in  VVelland,  Ontario, 
Canada,  January  13.  1864.  In  1868  the  fam- 
ily moved  to  Kansas,  and  here  young 
Gushing  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  Junction  Gity.  In  1878  he  drove 
overland  tO'  Denver,  and  the  trip  was  a 
rough  one,  beset  by  many  hardships.  Mr. 
Gushing  began  his  first  railroad  work  and 
earned  his  first  wages  in  1878  when  he  was 
made  messenger  boy  in  the  Union  Pacific 
offices  at  Denver,  On  March  20,  1878,  he 
went  to  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  as  mes- 
senger boy  in  the  superintendent's  office. 
In  1880  he  was  transferred  to  the  general 
baggage  office  as  chief  clerk,  virtually  in 
charge  of  this  department  of  the  growing 
Colorado  road.  On  March  1,  1888,  he  was 
appointed  general  baggage  agent  of  the 
Denver,  Texas  &  Fort  Worth,  and  re- 
mained with  that  road  until  it  was  pur- 
chased by  the  Union  Pacific,  when  he  was 
kept  in  charge  of  the  baggage  depart- 
ment until  1890,  when  he  was  transferred 
to  Portland,  Oregon,  as  division  baggage 
agent  of  the  system. 

In  1891  he  came  to  the  Rio  Grande 
Western  as  general  baggage  agent  and 
remained  with  them  until  March,  1894, 
when  he  went  back  to  his  first  love,  the 
Denver  &  Rio  Grande,  as  traveling  pas- 
senger agent.  Since  1878  he  has  never 
been  off  the  payrolls  nor  has  he  lost  one 
day's  work.  He  is  married  and  has  two 
daughters.  He  lives  in  the  Second  pre- 
cinct of  Salt  Lake  Glty,  and  is  one  of 
the  most  popular  railroad  men  ini  the 
fraternity. 


REPRESENTATIVE  TAYLOR. 
Alvin  Verender  Taylor  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 25.  1865.  in  Salt  Lake  Gity.  He  is 
the  son  of  Joseph  E.  and  Louisa  R.  Tay- 
lor. His  childhood  was  spent  in  Salt 
Lake,  and  at  the  age  of  13  he  entered  the 
University  of  Utah,  and  three  years  later 
he  completed  his  studies  in  that  institu- 
tion. Immediately  after  leaving  school 
Mr.  Taylor  entered  the  empdoy  of  the 
Western  Union  Telegraph  company, 
where  he  remained  for  eleven  months,  en- 
tering the  employ  of  the  Denver  &  Rio 
Gj-ande  Western  Railway  company  at  the 
end  of  that  period  as  operator  and  agent. 
The  company,  recognizing  his  value,  gave 
him  several  promotions,  and  he  remained 
in  its  employ  several  years,  finally  re- 
signing his  position  to  engage  in  the 
sto«k  business.  At  this  he  was  fairly 
successful  for  some  years,  but  owing  to 
the  depreciation  in  the  value  of  wool, 
eventually   sold   out.     Then   a   long-cher- 


ished purpose  was  fulfilled  by  his  going 
east  and  entering  the  Columbian  Law 
college,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1891. 
After  Mr.  Taylor's  attendance  at  the  law 
school  he  spent  some  time  in  the  employ 
of  the  war  department,  he  having  previ- 
ously passed  a  civil  service  examination. 
He  also  spent  about  six  months  in  the 
law  office  of  B.  F.  Lloyd  in  Wasihington, 
and  assisted  in  prosecuting  claims  in  the 
various  departments  and  through  con- 
gress. He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
Washington,  D.  G.,  and  in  Virginia,  late 
in  the  same  year.  But  the  longing  for 
the  companionship  o-f  his  native  mountains 
and  the  freer  and  clearer  atmosphere  of 
the  west,  brought  Mr.  Taylor  home  late 
in  the  fall  of  1891,  when  he  opened  a  law 
office,  in  which  he  has  established  a  lu- 
crative, practice. 

In  March  of  1892  in  Salt  Lake  City  he 
married  Miss  Blanche  Powers.  Two  chil- 
dren have  blessed  their  union. 

Mr.  Taylor  as  a  member  of  the  Salt 
Lake  delegation  in  the  lower  house  of 
the  first  State  legislature  was  a  consis- 
tent and  able  legislator.  He  has  made  a 
study  of  criminal  reform  and  drafted  the 
bills  pertaining  to  the  State  prison  and 
industrial  school  which  became  laws.  Mr. 
Taylor's  most  distinguishing  work  in  the 
house  was  a  brilliant  oration  in  support 
of  the  bill  to  abolish  capital  punishment. 


REPRESENTATIVE  CONDON. 

Dr.  Amasa  S.  Condon  was  bom  forty- 
nine  years  ago  fhe-  22nd  day  of  December 
in  the  country  town  of  Penoibscot,  Mainie. 
His  father  was  a  farmer  and  the  boy 
worked  with  him  and  three  brothers  on 
the  old  farm  in  summer  and  in  winter 
went  two  miles  through  the  woods  to 
school. 

At  the  age  of  15  he  began  to  teach  school 
during  vacations  to  help  pay  his  way  at 
the   East   Maine  seminary. 

In  a  little  while  the  war  broke  out  and 
on  the  28th  day  of  April,  1861,  though  still 
a  boy,  he  enlisted  in  the  Sixth  Maine  reg- 
iment. In  two  years  he  was  mustered  out 
for  injuries  received  at  the  battle  of  Wil- 
liamsburg;  he   was  a   sergeant. 

Then  he  returned  to  teaching  school 
and  by  turns  attended  the  seminary  till 
he  graduated,  the  third  in  a  'class  of 
more  than  125.  He  came  west  to  Iowa, 
where  he  was  clerk  in  the  internal  revenue 
office  of  Collector  Hewitt,  where  at  the 
same  time  he  studied  medicine.  He  was 
also  in  the  railroad  office  at  Nevada,  la. 
In  1868  he  entered  Michigan  university, 
and  after  one  year  went  to  Philadelphia 
and  there  graduated  in  medicine.  In  1871 
he  went  to  western  Iowa  and  engaged 
with  success  in  the  practice  of  medicine. 
In  1875  he  was  appointed  division  surgeon 
of  the  Union  Pacific,  with  headquarters  at 


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WM.     GIBSON. 


PRESLEY  DENNY. 


T.  J.  STEVENS. 


J.     R.     MURDOCK. 


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THE   STATE   OF   UTAH. 


Og-den,  and  after  seven  years  resigned  be- 
cause of  his  private  practice.  He  has 
practiced  medicine  very  successfully  in 
Ogden  ever  since. 

In  1886  he  went  to  the  Sandwich  Islands 
in  the  interest  of  the  Salt  Lake  Tribune 
and  some  eastern  papers  and  for  pleasure, 
and  his  letters  from  there  were  widely 
copied. 

Dr.  Condon  has  written  some  three  hun- 
dred poems  and  many  prose  sketches. 

In  1890  he  was  appointed  by  President 
Harrison  to  supervise  the  United  States 
census  of  the  district  of  Utah,  and  with 
such  success  that  he  received  the  praise 
of  the  department  in  a  special  order 
therefor.  The  Tribune  called  attention  to 
it  at  the  time.  In  1892  and  1893  he  spent 
the  winter  in  St.  Louis,  where  the  Marion- 
Sims  medical  college  conferred  the  post 
graduate  deg'ree  of  doctor  of  medicine  on 
him. 

In  the  first  State  legislature  Dr.  Condon 
represented  Ogden,  Weber  county,  where 
he  has  resided  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  cen- 
tury. 


the  German  and  French  languages  and 
of  civil  engineering.  He  is  also  a  well' 
read  man  in  current  affairs  and  history. 
Mr.  Nebeker  served  in  the  first  State  leg- 
islature as  representative  from  Salt  Lake- 
county. 


REPRESENTATIVE   NEBEKER,   OF 
SALT  LAKE. 

Among  the  pioneers  whose  courage,  ar- 
dor and  suffering  led  to  the  founding:  of 
the  initermountain  empire  that  has  just 
crossed  the  threshold  of  the  Union  as  the 
State  of  Utah,  one  of  the  youngest  and 
most  tireless  aoveiopers  was  wiuiam  Perry 
Nebeker.  The  boy  who  drove  an  ox  team 
across  a  thousand  miles  of  desert  in  1847 
gave  splendid  promise  of  the  man  who 
now  is  respected  and  looked  up  to  as  a 
leader  among  his  people.  Coming  up  from 
among  the  people,  he  has  always  kept  in 
close  touch  with  them,  ajnd  they  have 
honored  nim  with  many  tokens  of  their 
respect  and  confidence.  When  he  was 
elected  to  the  Territorial  legislature  in 
1860,  he  was  one  of  the  yOungesit  members 
of  that  body,  Where  his  services  in  no  wise 
diminished  the  popular  favor  in  which  he 
was  held.  Since  then  he  has  tilled  many 
official  positions,  such  as  county  super- 
intendent of  district  schools,  justice  of 
the  peace,  notary  public,  deputy  regis- 
tration officer,  United  States  census  enu- 
merator in  1880,  and  special  irrigation 
commissioner  to  procure  and  arrange  irri- 
gation statistics  for  t'he  use  of  the  United 
btates  senate  committee  on  irrigation. 

The  hard  life  of  early  Utah  afforded  the 
youthful  pioneer  little  opportunity  for 
schooling,  but  he  learned  much  in  th«» 
practical  school  of  experience  and  obser- 
vation. He  acquired  the  rudiments  in  the 
public  schools,  and  has  since  taken  a 
commercial  college  course,  and  by  pri- 
vate study   has  acquired   a  knowledge   of 


REPRESENTATIVE     NYE. 

George  L.  Nye,  one  of  Salt  Lake  county's, 
representatives,  was  born  at  De  Witt,  la., 
August  3,  1869,  and  is  therefore  26  years, 
of  age.  After  graduating  from  the  public 
schools  in  his  native  town  in  June,  1886, 
he  entered  the  college  at  Urbana,  Ohio,  in 
September  of  the  same  year.  Complete 
ing  his  scientific  course  at  Urbana  in 
1889,  he  entered  the  law  department  of 
the  University  of  Michigan,  graduating 
and  receiving  the  degree  of  bachelor  of 
laws  in  1891.  He  entered  at  once  upon 
the  practice  of  his  profession  in  his  native 
lown,  but  realizing  that  "a  prophet  is  not 
without  honor  save  in  his  own  country," 
determined  to  seek  new  fields  beyond  the 
Rockies.  He  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City 
in  January,  1892.  The  Supreme  court  waa 
in  session,  he  was  admitted  and  imme- 
diately began  the  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion. 

Mr.  Nye  has  never  before  held  any 
public  position,  civil  or  military,  and  is 
unmarried. 


REPRESENTATIVE  MURDOCK. 

Joseph  R.  Murdock  was  born  August 
11,  1858,  at  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah,  where 
he  lived  until  1870,  when  his  parents 
moved  to  Charleston,  Wasatch  county, 
where  he  has  since  resided. 

He  finished  his  schooling  at  the  B.  Y. 
academy  in  1877,  receiving  therefrom  a 
teacher's   certificate. 

At  the  age  of  20  he  married  Margaret 
Wright  and  the  following  year  he  started 
on  a  mission  to  the  State  of  Michigun, 
where  he  labored  as  a  missionary  for 
nearly  two  years,  filling  an  honorable  mis- 
sion. 

He  was  elected  selectman  for  three  suc- 
cessive terms  in  Wasatch  county  before 
the  division  on  party  lines.  When  the 
people  divided  on  party  Ines  he  was  among 
the  first  to  take  a  stand  on  the  Demo- 
cratic side,  and  has  held  the  position  of 
county  chairman  of  that  party  during 
three  campaigns. 

He  was  one  of  the  delegates  from  Wa- 
satch county  to  the  Constitutional  con- 
vention,   where    he    took    an    active    part. 

While  engaged  in  the  mercantile  busi- 
ness he  has  also  taken  an  active  paj^ 
in  agricultural  pursuits,  especially  in 
dairying,  taking  the  lead  in  establisihing 
one  of  the  most  successful  creameries  in 
Utah. 


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Mr.    Murdock    sat    for    Wasatch    county 
in  the  first  State  legislature. 


REPRESENTATIVE    SEVY. 
Thomas  Sevy,  representative  to  the  first 

State  legislature  of  Utah  from  Garfield 
county,  was  born  at  Harmony,  Washing- 
ton county,  Utah,  October  4,  1867.  He  re- 
sided there  with  his  parents  until  1871, 
when  they  removed  to  Panguitch,  then  in 
Iron  county,  but  since  made  the  county 
seat  of  Garfield  county,  where  they  were 
among  the  first  settlers. 

Being  on  the  frontier  with  his  parents, 
his  educational  advantages  were  limited, 
and  most  of  his  life  has  been  spent  in  the 
mountains,  looking  after  cattle  and  sheep. 
In  the  latter  industry  he  has  gained  quite 
a  reputation  for  sound  judgment  and 
financial  ability. 

On  account  of  his  mountaineer  life  he 
has  developed  a  wonderful  physique,  be- 
ing 6  feet  3  inches  in  height  and  well  pro- 
portioned. 

November  16.  1887,  he  married  Sarah  E. 
Crosby,  daughter  of  President  Jesse  W. 
Crosby,   Jr. 

When  the  division  movement  came  he 
joined  the  Republican  cause,  and  aided 
very  materially  in  crystallizing  the  idea 
of  the  young  and  old  of  Garfield  county. 

In  1892  he  was  elected  sheriff  of  Garfield 
county  on  the  Republican  ticket,  was  re- 
elected in  1894,  but  resigned  his  ofifice  at 
the  solicitation  of  his  friends  for  the  pur- 
pose of  running  on  the  legislative  ticket 
of  the  Republican  party. 

Mr.  Sevy,  though  young,  is  identified 
with  a  great  number  of  industries  of  the 
new  State;  besides  feeing  a  farmer  and 
sheep  and  cattle  raiser,  he  owns  consider- 
able interests  in  the  mercantile  houses  of 
Panguitch. 


REPRESENTATIVE     MORRISON. 

Seth  Warner  Morrison  was  born  at  Fort 
Atkinson,  Wis.,  December  13,  1856,  of  dis- 
tingiiished  New  England  parentage.  He 
received  the  benefit  of  a  common  school 
education  with  the  addition  of  two  years 
at  college,  being  obliged  to  leave  at  the 
end  of  his  sophomore  year  on  a<;count  of 
ill  health. 

He  moved  to  Denver  in  1872  with  his 
parents  and  has  lived  in  the  west  ever 
since. 

After  leaving  college  ne  engaged  in  the 
lumber  business  with  his  father  at  Den- 
ver. Mr.  Morrison  moved  tO'  Daramie, 
Wyo.,  where  he  already  was  interested  in 
the  same  line,  but  finding  the  field  too 
narrow,  he  moved  to  Salt  Lake  in  Janu- 
ary, 1890,  and  founded  the  firm  of  Morri- 
son, Merrill  &  Co.,  of  Salt  Lake  City, 
whici^  he  has  successfully  managed  ever 
since. 


Mr.  Morrison  was  an  active  member  and 
director  in  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  of 
Salt  Lake,  when  it  made  the  figiit  for 
Utah  merchants  against  the  over-charges 
and  discriminations  of  the  railroads, 
which  was  so  successfully  pressed  against 
the  railroads  that  they  met  in  conference 
with  the  merchants  and  amicably  adjusted 
their  differences,  rather  than  have  the 
Interstate  Commerce  Commission  rule  on 
the  grievances. 

Mr.  Morrison  was  married  in  1881  to 
Fannie  F.  Pettit  of  Fort  Atkinson,  Wis., 
and  an  interesting  family  of  a  boy  and 
and  girl  g-ladden  their  home. 

Mr.  Morrison  never  held  any  political 
office  until  his  election  to  the  house  of 
representatives  of  the  first  State  legisla- 
ture from  Salt  Lake  county.  He  was  a 
most  efficient  legislator  and  was  the 
leader  in  the  movement  for  railroad  legis- 
lation. 


REPRESENTATIVE  FERGUSSON,  OF 
SALT   LAKE. 

Tom  Fergusson,  representative  from 
the  Farmers'  ward,  Salt  Lake  county,  was 
born  in  Edinburgh,  Scotland,  in  the  year 
1853.  He  was  educated  in  Glasgow,  Scot- 
land, and  Lisbon,  Portugal,  and  gradu- 
ated from  the  high  school  of  Edinburgh 
in  1870.  He  came  to  the  United  States  in 
1872;  married  at  Morris,  111.,  in  1878,  and 
came  to  Utah  in  1880,  since  which  time  he 
has  been  largely  identified  with  the  min- 
ing industry  of  the  southern  part  of  the 
State.  He  has  been  for  three  years  a 
resident  of  the  Farmers'  ward  and  en- 
gaged in  the  practice  of  law  in  Salt  Lake 
City,  making  mining  and  mining  laws  his 
special    study. 

Mr.  Fergusson  distinguished  himself  in 
the  house  as  the  chairman  of  the  appro- 
priations committee.  He,  of  course,  as 
such  chairman,  drafted  the  general  ap- 
propriation bill  and  became  its  sponsor 
in  the  house.  It  can  be  said  to  Mr.  Fer- 
gusson's  credit  and  as  an  evidence  of 
his  efficiency,  that  the  appropriations  bill 
passed  the  house  in  less  time  and  with 
fewer  changes  than  did  any  other  meas- 
ure approaching  anything  like  the  same 
importance. 


REPRESENTATIVE  BEARD. 

George  Beard  wa.si  bom  December  21, 
1855,  at  Whaley  Bridge,  Cheshire,  Eng- 
land; came  to  Utah  in  the  fall  of  1868.  Has 
never  been  to  school  except  three  weeks 
since  he  was  9  years  of  age.  He  was 
married  to  S.  Lovenia  Bullock,  a  daugh- 
ter of  Thomas  Bullock,  one  of  Utah's 
pioneers,  at  Coalville,  on  March  31,  1877; 
they  have  seven  children,  all  living. 

Mr.  Beard  has  been  continuously  em- 
ployed by  the  Coalville  Co-operative  Mer- 


p.    M.    MAUGHAN. 


JAMES  ANDRUS. 


TOM  FERGUSSON. 


GEORGE    I..    NYE. 


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cantile  institution  since  February,  1871, 
first  as  choreboy;  in  1878  he  was  elected 
its  secretary;  in  January,  1892,  was'  ap- 
pointed assistant  to  Manager  Cluff,  whicK 
two  positions  he  has  held  since  and  now 
holds. 

He  was  elected  mayor  of  Coalville  City 
in  February,  1891;  wa«  eiectea  schooi 
trusitee  in  1892;  was  ordained  a  bisi-r-r"  in 
the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter-day 
Saints  in  February,  1889;  was  honorably 
released  in  the  spring  of  1895.  He  repre- 
sented Summit  county  in  the  lower  house 
of  the  first  State  legislature  and  was  one 
of  the  most  careful  and  painstaking  mem- 
bers of  the  Republican  side.  He  was  tihe 
author  of  the  bill  creating  the  office  of 
coal  mine  inspector  and  the  bill  giving 
bounties  for  the  destruction  of  predatory 
animals. 

REPRESENTATIVE  CURTIS. 

Lee  A.  Curtis,  member  ot  the  lower  house 
of  the  first  State  legislature  from  Weber 
county,  was  born  in  Licking  county,  Ohio, 
July  24,  1852.  When  a  few  months  old  he 
with  his  parents  went  to  Knoxville,  la., 
where  he  resided  until  1888.  When  six 
years  of  age  he  was  left  an  orphan,  and 
was  raised  by  his  grandparents  on  a  farm. 
His  education  was  received  in  the  public 
schools,  except  one  year,  when  he  at- 
tended the  Central  university  at  Pella, 
la.  For  ten  or  twelve  years  following  he 
taught  school  in  the  winter  and  worked 
on  a  farm  or  at  carpenter  work  in  the 
summer. 

He  was  married  to  Minnie  A.  Bonifield 
in  Knoxville,  la,,  August  22,  1875.  Three 
years  prior  to  his  coming  west  he  was 
elected  county  surveyor  for  Marion  coun- 
ty, Iowa.  In  this  capacity  he  served  two 
years.  Coming  to  Colorado  in  1888,  he  was 
one  of  the  party  of  civil  engineers  that 
surveyed  out  the  line  for  the  Colorado 
Midland  railroad,  and  after  the  comple- 
tion of  the  Midland  road  he  was  employ- 
ed as  boss  carpenter  by  the  Arkansas 
Valley  Smelting  company,  at  Leadville, 
Colo.,  until  coming  to  Ogden  in  May,  1890. 
Since  then  he  has  worked  at  carpenter 
work  and  civil  engineering.  While  the 
sewers  were  being  constructed  at  Ogden 
he  was  employed  by  the  city  as  inspector. 

Mr.  Curtis  represented  a  labor  constit- 
uency and  was  honored  by  being  made 
chairman  of  the  labor  committee,  which 
fact  gave  him  large  prestige  in  his  efforts 
in  behalf  of  the  sons  of  toil.  That  he 
used  it  to  their  advantage,  the  bills  which 
passed  and  became  laws,  whose  purposes 
are  for  the  bettering  of  the  conditions 
under  which  men  labor  in  Utah,  are  in 
evidence. 


has  resided  in  Parowan,  Utah,  since  Feb- 
ruary, 1858.  His  scholastic  education  was 
obtained  in.  Parowan. 

He  married  Mary  J.  Roberts  November 
27,  1866.  His  principal  occupation  has  been 
the  breeding  and  raising,  also  buying  and 
selling  of  live  stock — cattle  and  horses. 

He  held  the  office  of  city  councilman 
from  1890  to  1892  and  was  again  elected 
in  1893.  He  was  elected  tO'  represent  Iron 
county  in  the  first  State  legislature,  as  a 
Republican,  and  his  actions  there  were 
always  consistent  with  the  principles  of 
his    party. 


REPRESEaSTTATIVE     SORENSEN. 

Andrew  Philip  Sorensen,  Representative 
from  the  Twenty-seventh  Representative 
district  (San  Juan  county),  was  born  in 
Denmark  April  4,  1861.  His  parents  emi- 
grated to  Utah  in  1863  and  settled  in 
Smithfleld,  Cache  county,  where  they  now 
reside. 

He  attended  the  district  schools  at 
Smithfleld  like  most  farmers'  boys,  going 
to  school  during  the  winter  and  working 
on  the  farm  in  the  summer.  He  attended 
the  Brigham  Young  college  at  Logan 
during  the  winter  for  two  seasons;  at- 
tended the  University  of  Utah  in  1883; 
taught  school  in  1884;  attended  school  at 
the  University  of  Utah  in  1885,  and  gradu- 
ated in  the  normal  department  with  the 
class  of  1885.  He  then  taught  school  until 
1893  in  various  parts  of  Utah. 

In  August,  1889,  at  Logan,  he  married 
Mary  A.  Hammond,  daughter  of  Presi- 
dent F.  A.  Hammond.  In  1893  he  moved 
to  Monticello,  where  he  now  resides. 
Taught  school  there  one  year,  then  en- 
tered the  mercantile  business,  in  which 
he  is  now  engaged.  He  has  managed  the 
business  of  the  Monticello  Co-operative 
oompany  for  two  years. 

He  has  held  the  positions  in  San  Juan 
county  of  county  recorder,  county  pros- 
ecuting attorney  and  superintendent  of 
district  schools,  besides  some  minor  of- 
fices. 

Upon  the  division  on  party  lines  in 
Utah  he  joined   the  Democratic  party. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Ham- 
mond &  Co.,  who  purchased  the  mercan- 
tile business  of  Huish  &  Co.  of  Moab, 
Grand  county.  He  is  also  interested  in  a 
number  of  promising  mining  properties 
in  the  Blue  mountains. 

Mr.  Sorensen  was  always  a  careful  and 
able  legislator.  He  was  the  author  of  the 
bill  to  abolish  capital  punishment,  and 
made  a  strong,  logical  argument  in  sup- 
port of  the  bill,  which,  however,  was  de- 
feated by  a  prejudiced  sentiment  against 
it. 


REPRESENTATIVE  CLARK. 
E.   L    Clark  was   born   at   Winter  Quar- 
ters   (Florence),    Neb.,    April    7,    1848.      He 


REPRESENTATIVE      SNEDAKR. 

J.  P.  Snedaker,  D.  D.  S.,   is  34  years  of 

age.     He    was    bom   at   Mill    Creek,    Salt 


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THE   STATE   OF   UTAH. 


Lake  county,  Utah,  and  has  resided  in 
Salt  Lake  county  almost  continuously. 

The  greater  part  of  his  life  has  been 
spent  on  a  farm.  In  1880  and  1881  he  at- 
tended the  University  of  Deseret;  taught 
school  in  1883  and  1884;  was  elected  to  the 
office  of  justice  of  the  peace  of  Mill 
Creek  precinct  in  1886,  holding  the  office 
for  two  terms. 

In  the  spring  of  1887  he  took  up  the 
study  of  dentistry.  In  1890  and  1891  he 
attended  the  New  York  College  of  Den- 
tistry, from  which  institution  he  gradu- 
ated with  honors  in  the  spring  of  1891. 
Returning  to  Salt  Lake  City,  immediately 
after  graduating,  he  engaged  in  the  prac- 
tice of  his  profession.  In  the  spring  of 
1892  he  removed  to  The  Dalles,  Or.,  where 
he  remained  two  years,  returning  to  Mill 
Cl*eek,  where  he  has  since  resided.  Dr. 
Snedaker  was  married  to  Miss  Clara  A. 
Capson  June  24,  1891.  He  represented  Mill 
Creek  district  as  a  member  of  the  lower 
house  of  the  first  State  legislature  as  a 
Republican. 


REPRESENTATIVE  THORNE. 
James  T.  Thorne  is  the  son  of  David 
and  Eliabeth  Thorne;  was  born  at  Pleas- 
ant Grove,  Utah  county,  September  10, 
1855;  his  parents  having  emigrated  from 
England  in  the  year  1851,  and  located  in 
Pleasant  Grove,  where  he  has  resided 
always.  His  early  life  was  spent  on 
the  farm,  having  the  privilege  of  school 
during  the  winter  months.  On  April  24, 
1876,  he  was  united  in  marriage  with 
Harriet  N.  Farnsworth,  daughter  of 
Stephen  M.  and  Julia  Ann  Farnsworth. 
His  occupation  is  that  of  merchant  and 
farmer.  In  his  pursuits  he  has  been 
fairly  successful.  He  has  traveled  in 
most  of  the  states  of  the  union  and  also  in 
Europe.  Was  during  its  existence  a  mem- 
ber of  the  People's  party,  and  worked  in 
defense  of  that  which  he  believed  to  be 
right.  He  hailed  with  delight  the  di- 
vision on  party  lines,  and  was  the  first 
person  to  sign  a  Republican  roll  in  Pleas- 
ant Grove,  since  which  he  has  been  an 
ardent  worker  in  the  canse  of  protection. 
He  is  the  only  Republican  elected  to  the 
legislature  from  Utah  county,  the  Elev- 
enth representative  district,  and  the  first 
Republican  to  be  elected  to  any  office  in 
the  county. 


REPRESENTATIVE  EGAN. 
Richard  E.  Egan  was  born  in  Salem, 
Mass.,  in  1842;  has  lived  in  Utah  since  1848. 
He  was  married  to  Mary  Minnie  Fisher, 
and  again  to  Mary  B.  Noble  in  1889,  his 
former  wife  having  died  in  1887.  He  has 
thirteen  living  children  and  has  buried 
four.  His  principal  occupation  has  been 
ranching  and  farming,  though  he  has 
served    several    terms    as   justice    of    the 


peace,  and  two  terms  as  assessor  and 
collector  for  Davis  county.  In  his  boy- 
hood days  he  carried  the  United  States 
mail  on  the.  hurricane  deck  of  a  mule, 
and  prior  to  the  advent  of  the  telegraph 
across  the  continent  rode  the  once  fa- 
mous "Pony  Express"  for  about  sixteen 
months,  from  Salt  Lake  City  westward 
seventy-five  miles,  usually  making  the 
trip  in  from  four  and  one-half  to  five 
and  one-half  hours,  though  he  sometimes 
would  get  side-tracked  by  blinding  snow- 
storms and  remain  out  all  night,  and  one 
trip,  a  fine  $300  horse  fell  with  him  be- 
tween stations  and  broke  its  neck,  and 
Mr.  Egan  was  compelled  to  walk  about 
five  miles  and  carry  saddle  and  heavy 
express  matter. 

He  has  never  sought  for  notoriety  or 
office,  but  office  seems  to  have  sought 
him  a  few  times  and  has  found  him,  con- 
trary to  his  expectations  or  desires.  Mr. 
Egan  represented  Davis  county  in  the 
lower  house  of  the  first  State  legislature. 


REPRESENTATIVE  BERNHISEL. 

J.  M.  Bernhisel  was  born  December  21, 
1846,  on  the  west  banks  of  the  Missouri 
river,  a  few  miles  above  where  the  city 
of  Omaha  now  stands;  the  place  was 
then  known  as  Winter  Quarters,  Omaha 
Nation.  He  came  to  Utah  in  1848  in  a 
wagon  drawn  by  oxen  and  cows,  and 
lived  for  a  time  in  the  Old  Fort  in  Salt 
Lake  City.  His  home  has  always  been 
in  Utah  since  crossing  the  plains;  he  has 
a  common  school  education,  which  was 
obtained  under  the  tuition  of  his  father, 
J.  M.  Bernhisel,  and  at  the  common 
schoois. 

He  was  married  January  3,  1876,  in  Salt 
Lake  City,  to  Henrietta  Harris,  a  daugh- 
ter of  one  of  the  Mormon  battalion  boys. 

During  the  Indian  troubles  known  as 
the  Black  Hawk  war,  in  1867,  he  served 
about  four  months  in  W.  L.  Binder's 
company  of  volunteers,  which  left  Salt 
Lake  City  on  the  17th  of  June.  One  of 
his  messmates,  John  Hay,  was  killed  by 
Indians  at  Warm  creek,   Sanpete  county. 

For  a  number  of  years  after  returning 
from  Sanpete  he  was  railroading,  mining 
and  freighting,  until  he  took  up  a  ranch 
in  Cache  county,  when  he  commenced 
farming,  which  occupation  he  has  fol- 
lowed ever  since  1876.  He  has  served  four 
terms  as  justice  of  the  peace  in  Lewiston. 

In  company  with  P.  E.  Van  Orden  and 
Robert  Wall,  about  July  10,  1870,  he 
staked  the  first  land  for  actual  settlement 
between  Bear  and  Cub  rivers,  where  is 
now  located  a  flourishing  town  of  about 
nine  hundred  inhabitants  called  Lewiston, 
in  honor  of  William  H.  Lewis,  their  first 
bishop.  Mr.  Bernhisel  was  one  of  Cache 
county's  representatives  in  the  lower 
house  on  the  Democratic  side. 


THE   STATE   OP   UTAH. 


REPRESENTATIVE  CAZIER. 

Aldebert  Cazier  was  born  at  Nephi, 
Utah,  in  April,  1860,  and  is  therefore.  35 
years  of  agre.  He  spent  hia  youthful 
•days  as  a  farm  boy,  and  received  a  com- 
mon school  education  in  the  district 
schools.  In  the  year  1880,  at  Salt  Lake 
City,  he  was  married  to  Mary  A.  Parkes. 

He  is  public  spirited  and  aggressive  for 
the  public  weal.  He  was  the  founder  of 
the  Ceizier  Bros.  &  Co.'s  clothing  store  at 
Nephi  city,  which  has  grown  tg  be  one  of 
the  best  houses  in  southern  Utah. 

He  was  the  prime  mover  in  the  estab- 
lishment of  the  Nebo  Salt  Manufacturing 
company,  discovering  by  his  wa,tchful  eye 
the  value  of  the  trickling  streams  of  salt 
water  from  under  the  mighty  Mount 
Nebo.  He  is  now  the  manager  of  that 
company,  and  dispenses  its  noted  pro- 
ducts from  the  Missouri  river  to  the  Pa- 
cific ocean. 

At  the  twenty-ninth  session  of  the  legis- 
lative assembly  of  the  Territory  of  Utah 
he  was  the  sergeant-at-arms  of  the  coun- 
cil. He  is  quick  of  comprehension  and 
firm  in  what  his  good  judgment  has  de- 
termined to  be  right. 

At  the  election  in  the  Thirteenth  Re- 
presentative district,  which  sent  him  as 
representative  to  the  first  State  legisla- 
ture, lie  received  a  sweeping  majority  of 
votes  over  his  opponent,  showing  the  peo- 
ple's confidence  in  his  ability. 

Mr.  Cazier  was  chairman  of  the  rail- 
roads committee,  and  was  author  of  the 
law  providing  for  farmers'  institutes  and 
the  one  giving  bounties  for  the  cultiva- 
tion of  canaigre  root  and  the  manufac- 
tui«  of  leather. 


REPRESENTATIVE   ANDRUS. 

James  Andrus  was  bom  June  14,  1835, 
at  Florence,  Huron  county,  Ohio,  and 
came,  to  Utahi  a  boy  in  1848,  when  13 
years  old.  He  received  the  advantages  of 
the  common  school  education  of  that 
period,  and  was  married  in  1857,  in  Salt 
Lake  county,  Utah. 

The  chief  pursuits  of  his  life  have  been 
stock-raising  and   merchandising. 

In  early  life  he  was  enrolled  in  the  mili- 
tary service  of  Utah  territory,  and  be- 
came captain  of  Company  A,  First  Bat- 
talion of  cavalry.  Iron  military  district. 
In  this  capacity  he  served  during  the  In- 
dian troubles  of  southern  Utah  from  1864 
till  the  permanent  establishment  of  peace 
with  the  Utes  and  Navajos.  He  was 
elected  lieutenant  colonel  of  the  First 
regiment  cavalry.  First  brigade,  in  Iron 
military  district,  on  the  22d  of  February, 
1868,  and  commissioned  by  Acting  Gov- 
ernor Edwin  Higgins  on  the.  15th  of 
April  the  same  year. 

As  a  preliminary  to  this  military  ex- 
perience,   he   spent   three   winters,    begin- 


ning 1855,  when  20  years  of  age,  in  the 
Bitter  Root  valley,  then  in  Washington 
territory,  now  Montana,  among  the  Flat- 
head, Pontarrah  and  Nez  Perces  Indians, 
trading  in  merchandise  and  horses.  He 
has  led  an  intensely  active  life  from  ear- 
ly boyhood  till  the  present. 

Mr.  Andrus  was  elected  representative 
as  a  Democrat  from  Washington  county. 
He  was  chairman  of  the  live  stock  com- 
mittee and  was  the  author  of  the  estray 
law. 


SENATOR  EVANS. 

Abel  J.  Evans  was  born  in  Lehi,  Utah, 
December  20,  1852.  At  the  age  of  13,  his 
father  died,  and  young  as  he  was,  the 
boy  had  to  help  earn  support  for  his 
mother  and  seven  brothers  and  sisters. 
He  tended  the  farm  until  1874,  when  he 
ma;rried  Louisa  Emerline  Zimmerman  at 
Salt  Lake  City,  and  began  business  for 
himself. 

Mr.  Evans  was  appointed  a  city  coun- 
cilman for  Lehi  in  1879,  and  in  1881  he 
was  elected  to  the  same  position.  In 
1883  he  was  elected  alderman,  and  in  1885 
was  elected  a  selectman  for  Utah  county. 
In  November,  1894,  he  was  elected  a 
member  of  the  Utah  constitutional  con- 
vention, and  served  with  that  body 
throughout  its  session,  which  began 
March  4,  1895.  In  1889  and  1890  he  filled  a 
mission  to  Great  Britain  as  a  Mormon 
elder.  In  November,  1895,  he  was  elected 
a  senator  from  Utah  county  tO'  the  first 
State  legislature. 


SENATOR  SNOW. 

Edward  H.  Snow,  senator  from  the 
Eleventh  district,  which  comprises  the 
counties  of  Beaver,  Iron,  Washington 
and  Kane,  was  born  at  St.  George,  Utah, 
June  23,   1865. 

He  is  a  graduate  of  the  Brigham 
Young  academy,  Provo;  was  married  in 
1885,  to  Hannah  Nelson  of  St.  George. 
Since  1888  he  has  held  a  number  of  posi- 
tions of  trust  in  Washington  county, 
and  was  a  member  of  the  constitutional 
convention.  Mr.  Snow  was  the  unani- 
mous choice  for  senator  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party  in  his  district,  and  at  the 
convention  held  at  Cedar  city  was  nomi- 
nated by  acclamation. 


SENATOR  CHIDESTER. 
J.  F.  Chidester  was  born  at  Spanish 
Fork,  Utah  county,  February  2,  1853;  he 
has  lived  in  Utah  ever  smce,  with  the 
exception  of  two  years  in  Nevada.  He 
was  married  first  on  the  22nd  day  of  Oc- 
tober, 1874,  to  Miss  Mary  Nicoll  in  Wash- 
ington county,  Utah.  His  wife  died 
January   13,    1883,    leaving   him    four   chil- 


THE   STATE   OF  UTAH. 


dren.     He  later  married  Almina  Worthen 
of  Panguitch  on  March  4,  1885. 

He  was  admitted  to-  practice  law  in 
1885,  and  since  that  time  has  followed 
that  profession  with  g-ood  success.  He 
held  the  position  of  city  attorney  of 
Washing-ton  city,  Utah,  and  constable  for 
the  same  place  for  two  years  each;  has 
held  the  office  of  county  clerk  of  Gar- 
field county  for  two  years,  and  deputy 
assessor  and  collector  for  three  years; 
was  a  member  of  the  constitutional  con- 
vention that  framed  the  constitution  of 
the  new  state  of  Utah;  also  held  the  ofBce 
of  recorder  of  Garfield  county  at  the  time 
of  his  election  to  the  first  State  legisla- 
ture, which  position  he  resigned  in  order 
to  accept  the  latter.  He  was  also  the 
first  member  of  the  Republican  territo- 
rial committee  from  Garfield  county.  He 
was  the  first  Republican  chairman  of 
Panguitch,  and  made  the  first  Repub- 
lican speech  in  Garfield  county  after  the 
division  on  national  party  lines.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  bar  of  the  supreme 
court  of  the  State  of  Utah.  He  has  spent 
two  years  in  the  southern  states  as  a 
missionary  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ 
of  Latter-day  Saints. 


SENATOR    CANDLAND. 

W.  D.  Candland  was  bom  Augnst  22, 
1858,  in  Salt  I^ke  City;  moved  to  San- 
pete county  when  three  years  of  age;  re- 
turned to  Salt  Lake  and  attended  school, 
and  was  employed  in  Z.  C.  M.  I.  until 
about  eighteen,  when  he  returned  to  San- 
pete coamty,  where  he  has  since  residea. 
He  was  married  in  1884,  to  Miss  Annie 
Peel;  has  been  engaged  in  farming,  survey- 
ing, school  teaching  and  is  now  engaged 
in  sheep  raising,  farming,  flour-milling, 
electric  light,   wool  companies,   etc. 

He  has  served  as  school  trustee,  justice 
of  the  peace,  two  terms  as  city  councilor 
of  Mount  Plearant,  and  as  county  recorder 
of  Sanpete  county. 

He  represented  Sanpete  county,  the 
Ninth  district,  in  the  senate  of  the  first 
State  legislature. 


SENATOR    JONES. 

Elmer  B.  Jones  was  born  on  a  farm  at 
Quincy,  la.,  July  24,  1861;  graduated  from 
the  State  University  of  Iowa  at  Iowa  City 
in  June,  1883.  Soon  afterwards  he  moved 
to  Kearney,  Neb.,  and  engaged  in  the 
practice  of  law,  which  has  been  his  occu- 
pation ever  since.  In  July,  1885,  he  mar- 
ried Nora  Myers  at  Iowa  City,  la.  Has 
always  been  a  Republican,  although  his 
father  and  his  whole  family,  who  are 
Virginians,  moving  from  Virginia  to  Iowa 
in  1854,  are  all  Democrats,  and  has  been 
active  in  politics  before  coming  to  Utah; 
was   chairman    of   the   county    committee. 


president  of  the  first  Republican  league 
club  organized  in  his  county,  and  held 
various  positions  on  the  Nebraska  State 
committees. 

In  September,  1890,  he  moved  to  Provo, 
Utah,  where  he  practiced  law  until  Oc- 
tober, 1892,  when  he  formed  a  partnership 
with  A.  T.  Schroeder  and  moved  to  Salt 
Lake.  He  took  part  in  the  campaign  of 
1894,  and  has  been  in  all  the  conventions 
of  his  party  since  then.  He  was  an  orig- 
inal Wells  man,  and  nominated  him  in 
the  State  convention  for  governor. 

Mr.  Jones  occupied  a  seat  in  the  senate 
of  the  first  State  legislature  as  senator 
from  the  Sixth  district. 

SENATOR    BOOTH. 

Hiram  E.  Booth  was  born  in  Clayton 
county,  Iowa,  near  the  town  of  Postviile, 
October  25,  1860,  and  resided  at  that  place 
until  1874.  In  1874  his  father  moved  with 
his  family  to  Pottawattamie  county,  Iowa, 
near  Council  Bluffs.  Young  Booth  re- 
ceived his  education  in  the  common 
schools  of  Iowa.  In  1882  he  began  the 
study  of  law  with  Hon.  Frank  Shinn,  a 
pioneer  attorney  of  the  State  of  Iowa,  and 
in  September,  1885,  passed  an  examina- 
tion before  the  Supreme  court  of  Iowa, 
and  was  admitted  to  practive  in  all  the 
courts  of  that  State.  He  was  the  editor 
and  proprietor  of  the  Carson  Critic,  a 
paper  published  at  Carson,  la.,  something 
over  a  year,  and,  after  selling  out,  formed 
a  partnership  with  Mr.  Shinn  in  the  law 
business  to  practice  at  the  Pottawattamie 
county  bar.  He  was  married  to  Carrie 
M.  Robinson  at  Cedar  Rapids,  la.,  August 
26,  1886,  his  wife  dying  in  December,  1887. 
He  has  one  daughter,  the  iss-ue  of  that 
narriage,  now  living. 

Mr.    Booth   came   to   Utah   in   December, 

1888,  and  was  admitted  to  practice  by  the 
Supreme  court  of  Utah  Territory  in  Janu- 
ary,  1889.     He   returned   to  Iowa   in   May, 

1889,  and  married  Miss  Lillian  B.  Red- 
head, of  Postviile,  la,,  after  which  he 
again  returned  to  Utah,  and  entered  upon 
the  practice  of  law  at  Salt  Lake  City, 
where  he  has  resided  ever  since.  He  has 
one  daughter,  aged  5  years,  the  issue  of 
his  second  marriage. 

He  served  for  some  time  as  United 
States  commissioner,  and  is  at  present 
the  senior  member  of  the  law  firm  of 
Booth,  Lee  &  Gray,  a  firm  which  has  been 
in  existence  since  1892.  He  served  as  a 
member  of  the  council  of  the  Thirty-first 
legislative  assembly  of  the  Territory  of 
Utah,  and  was  chairman  of  the  Judiciary 
committee.  He  served  as  a  member  of 
the  senate  of  the  first  State  legislature, 
and  was  chairman  of  the  following  com- 
mittees: Ways  and  Means,  State  Affairs, 
v»nblic  Buildings  and  Institutions,  and 
Rules. 


J.     LOWREY,     SR. 


W.    P.    NEBEKER. 


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THE   STATE   OP   UTAH. 


SENATOR    CHAMBERS. 

Robert  Craig-  Chambers,  senator  from 
the  Fifth  district,  was  born  in  Lexington, 
Richland  county,  Ohio,  January  16,  1832. 
His  family  came  to  America  from  Scot- 
land shortly  after  the  revolution.  He 
left  home  when  a  mere  boy  to  seek  his 
fortune  in  the  west.  He  crossed  the  plains 
by  the  Soda  Spring-s  route  and  reached 
SacramejUo^  in  July,  1850.  He  went  at 
once  to  trT^  mines  and  did  his  first  work 
as  a  miner  on  Mo'rmon  island,  America 
river.  Tlae  next  year  he  went  to  the  Up- 
per Feather  river  mines  in  Plumas  coun- 
ty, where  he  lived  for  eighteen  years. 
There  he  first  met  Judg-e  C.  C.  Goodwin, 
editor  of  the  Salt  Lake  Tribune,  and 
formed  a  friendship  that  continues  to  the 
present  day.  Mr.  Chambers  was  elected 
sheriff  of  Plumas  county  and  served  two 
full  terms.  He  began  merchandising-  and 
cooTKbined  that  with  quartz  and  placer 
mining-  until  1869,  when  he  closed  out  his 
business  and  moved  to  Nevada.  He  trav- 
eled over  the  entire  west,  going  as  far 
northi  as  Helena,  Mont.,  looking  for  a 
place  to  locate,  and  finally  came  to  Utah. 
He  first  managed  the  Webster  and  Bully 
Boy  mines,  in  the  southern  part  of  the 
state,  for  George  Hearst.  When  the  On- 
tario mine  was  discovered  Mr.  Chambers 
took  hold  of  it,  opened  it  up,  and  by 
splendid  management  brought  it  to  the 
front  as  one  of  the  greatest  bonanzas  of 
America.  Since  that  time  his  history  has 
been  that  of  the  great  Ontario,  which  is 
a  lasting-  monument  to  his  genius  and 
ability. 

Among  his  other  enterprises  Mr.  Cham- 
bers is  now  the  proprietor  of  the  Salt 
Lake  Herald,  the  chief  exponent  of  the 
principles  of  his  party,  the  Democratic, 
in  the  inter-mountain  region,  and  one  of 
the  first  daily  papers  in  Utah, 

Mr.  Chamtoers  was  elected  to  the  senate 
of  the  first  State  legislature  from  the 
Fifth  senatorial  district,  in  which  capac- 
ity he  served  with  honor  and  distinction. 


SENATOR  ALLISON. 
E.  M.  Allison,  Jr.,  was  born  m  Lehi, 
Utah,  December  13.  1863.  When  the  lad 
was  two  years  old  his  parents  moved  to 
Coalville,  Utah;  he  lived  with  his  parents 
at  Coalville  and  attended  the  district 
schools  at  that  place  until  1880,  when  he 
went  to  Salt  Lake  City  and  entered  the 
University  of  Deseret,  taking  a  three  and 
one-half  years'  course  at  that  institution 
of  learning.  He  then  returned  to  Coal- 
ville and  taught  district  school  during 
two  years,  at  the  same  time  putting  in 
his  spare  time  in  reading  law.  In  1884  he 
was  elected  county  attorney  of  Summit 
county,  the  duties  of  which  oflfice  'he  dis- 
charg-ed  for  a  period  of  two  years.  In 
1886  he  again  received  the  nomination  for 


county  attorney  of  Summit  county,  but 
was  defeated  in  the  election.  In  Febru- 
ary, 1887,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of 
the  supreme  court  of  Utah  territory.  One 
year  later,  in  February,  1888,  he  went  to 
Ogden  for  the  purpose  of  making  that 
city  his  home.  In  February,  1888,  he 
formed  a  partnership  with  Judge  P.  H. 
Emerson,  which  partnership  continued 
until  March,  1889,  when  Judge  Emerson 
died.  In  July,  1889,  he  formed  a  partner- 
ship with  Hon.  James  N.  Kimball,  which 
partnership  continued  to  exist  until  July 
1,  1893.  Since  the  dissolution  of  the  part- 
nership of  Kimball  &  Allison,  he  has  been 
engaged  in  the  practice  of  law  in  Ogden 
city  alone.  On  August  1,  1891,  he  was  ap- 
pointed assistant  United  States  attorney 
by  President  Harrison,  to  serve  under  C. 
S.  Varian,  who  was  the  United  States  at- 
torney at  that  time  for  Utah  territory, 
which  ofllce  he  held  until  the  inaugura- 
tion of  President  Cleveland,  when  he  ten- 
dered his  resignation. 

On  November  13,  1890.  he  was  married 
in  Ogden  city,  Utah.  In  the  spring  of  1891 
he  was  elected  a  memtoer  of  the  city 
council  of  Ogden  city  from  the  Fourth 
ward  and  served  in  that  capacity  for  a 
period  of  two  years.  On  May  31,  1892,  he 
was  elected  by  the  city  council  of  Ogden 
city,  of  which  the  Hon.  Frank  J.  Cannon 
was  then  a  member,  president  of  the 
council,  being  the  first  to  preside  as  pres- 
ident of  the  Ogden  city  council.  In  the 
city  election  of  1892  he  was  a  candidate 
for  mayor  of  Ogden  upon  the  Republican 
ticket,  being  the  first  to  run  for  that 
office  upon  the  Republican  ticket  in  Og- 
den. Both  Liberals  and  Democrats  had 
tickets  in  the  field  at  that  time,  and  the 
Republican  and  Democratic  nominees 
were  defeated  and  the  Liberal  nominee 
was  elected.  He  was  nominated  for  the 
office  of  state  senator  from  Weber  coun- 
ty by  the  Republican  convention  in  the 
fall  of  1895,  and  was  elected  to  that  office 
on  the  6th  day  of  November,  1895. 

In  the  senate  Mr.  Allison  distinguished 
himself  as  one  of  the  ablest  members  of 
that  body. 


SENATOR    M'KAY. 

D  ivid  McKay  was  bom  May  3,  1844,  in 
Caithness  county,  Scotland.  He  eml- 
grf.ted  with  his  parents,  one  brother  and 
three  sisters,  to  the  United  States  in  1856. 

Three  years  were  spent  in  New  York. 
New  Jersey  and  Iowa,  where  he  worked 
as  a  laborer  in  the  brick  yard  and  on  the 
farm.  He  crossed  the  plains  with  Captain 
James  S.  Brown's  ox  team,  ai-riving  in 
Salt  Lake  City  in  the  month  of  November, 
1859,  and  soon  after  settled  in  Ogden. 
Having  a  great  desire  to  become  a  soldier 
he    accordingly    asked    Sergeant    Samuel 


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Glascow,  of  the  Utah  militia,  to  take 
him  as  one  of  his  platoon.  The  sergeant 
looked  at  him  and  scoffingly  remarked: 
"Your  height  is  all  right,  but  there's  no 
hair  on  your  face."  Thus,  at  the  age  of 
16,   he   enlisted  as  a  volunteer. 

In  the  early  sixties  he  made  his  ho-me 
in  Ogden  Valley,  and  was  one  of  the  first 
settlers  in  the  town  of  Huntsville.  Here 
he  received  his  appointment  as  captain, 
so«m  after  which  he  received  his  commis- 
sion as  major,  which  position  he  held  un- 
til  the   Utah   militia  was   disbanded. 

He  was  married  to  Miss  Jennette  Evans 
April  9,  1867,  in  Salt  Lake  City. 

Pie  was  elected  twice  justice  of  the 
peace  in  the  precinct  in  which  he  re- 
sided. He  was  then  appointed  United 
States  commissioner,  which  office  he  held 
until  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the 
lower  house  in  the  legislature  in  1893. 

Since  his  arrival  in  Utah  he  has  re- 
sided in  Weber  county  continuously,  with 
the  exception  of  two  years  spent  as  a  Mor- 
mon minister  in   the   land   of  his   birth. 

Mr.  McKay  was  the  colleague  of  Sena- 
tor Allison  from  the  Fourth  senatorial 
district. 

STATE  SENATOR  CANNON. 

George  M.  Cannon,  president  of  the  first 
State  senate  of  Utah,  was  the  first  white 
boy  born  in  St.  George,  Washington  coun- 
ty, Utah.  He  was  born  at  6  o'clock 
Christmas  morning,  1861,  and  is  a  son  of 
Angus  M.  Cannon,  his  mother's  maiden 
name    being    Sarah    M.    Mousley. 

When  7  years  of  age  his  parents  re- 
moved from  St.  George  to  Salt  Lake  City. 
He  attended  various  district  schools  in 
Salt  Lake  City,  until  1873.  and  then,  when 
12  years  of  age,  was  employed  in  weighing 
coal,  and  in  keeping  accounts  for  the 
Grass  Creek  Coal  company.  This  occupa- 
tion was  followed  for  two  years  and  a 
half.  The  last  year  and  a  half  of  this 
time,  although  extremely  young,  nearly 
all  collections  passed  through  his  hands 
and  all  freights  were  paid  by  him. 

In  the  fall  of  1875,  Mr.  Cannon  again 
entered  school,  attending  the  Fifteenth 
district  school.  In  the  succeeding  year 
Mr.  Cannon  was  obliged  to  work  during 
the  day  time,  and  attended  night  school 
until  about  December,  1876. 

In  January,  1877,  he  entered  the  Univer- 
sity of  Utah,  subsequently  taking  the 
normal  course  there,  graduating  as  a 
normal  in  the  class  of  1878.  He  studied 
two  more  years  at  the  University  in 
special    courses. 

In  1878  his  vacation  was  sT>ent  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  sur\'eying  party  of  Jesse  W. 
Fox,  locating  the  present  Union  Pacific 
line  from  Nephi,  Juab  county,  to  Deseret, 
Millard  county.  Mr.  Cannon  left  the 
University  permanently  in  1881.  and  was 
eng-aged  for  two  years  thereafter  in  teach- 


ing school.  Many  of  his  vacations  had 
been  spent  in  working  in  the  county  re- 
corder's office,  and  in  1883  he  was  perma- 
nently employed  in  that  office. 

In  1884  Mr.  Cannon  was  elected  county 
recorder  of  Salt  Lake  county,  an  office 
which  he  held  for  two  terms,  being  suc- 
ceeded by  John  H,  Rumel  jr.,  in  August, 
1890. 

He  then  engaged  in  the  real  estate  busi- 
ness until  January  1,  1892,  at  which  time 
he  accepted  the  position  of  cashier  of 
Zion's  Savings  Bank  and  Trust  com- 
pany,   which   position    he   still   holds. 

On  Christmas  day,  1884,  Mr.  Cannon  mar- 
ried Miss  Addie  Morris,  and  six  children, 
two  boys  and  four  girls,  have  resulted 
from  the  union. 

Mr.  Cannon's  life  from  boyhood  has  been 
an  extremely  active  one,  his  many  duties 
requiring  his  attention  both  night  and  day. 
Almost  his  entire  relaxation  has  been  with 
his  family,  as  he  has  there  taken  more 
enjoyment  than  he  felt  he  could  do  in 
other    social   pleasures. 

Mr.  Cannon  has  been  an  active  party 
man  since  the  division  movement.  Im- 
mediately after  the  meeting  in  the  Salt 
Lake  theatre,  at  which  it  was  decided  to 
actively  organize  the  Republican  party, 
Mr.  Cannon  was  chosen  by  the  Terri- 
torial committee  to  accompany  John 
Henry  Smith  and  John  M.  Zane  in  or- 
ganizing clubs  in  the  country  south  of 
Salt  Lake  City.  He  subsequently  became 
secretary  of  the  Republican  county  com- 
mittee of  Salt  Lake  county,  acting  in  this 
canac'ty  for  two  teams. 

In  July,  1895,  Mr.  Cannon  was  elected 
chairman  of  the  Territorial  Republican 
committee  as  successor  to  Hon.  Charles 
Crane,  and  was  subsequently  elected 
chairman  of  the  Republican  State  central 
committee,  after  the  convention  was  held 
nominating  the  present  State  officers.  The 
campaign  was  conducted  by  Mr.  Cannon 
in  such  a  way  as  to  call  for  the  united 
support  of  his  party,  and  when  he  ten- 
dered his  resignation  as  such  chairman 
on  December  14th  the  State  committee 
laid  the  resignation  on  the  table,  and 
unanimously  requested  him  to  remain  in 
his   office. 

Mr.  Cannon  was  a  prominent  member  of 
the  Constitutional  convention  which 
framed  the  Constitution  of  the  State,  and 
was  chairman  of  the  committee  on  Rev- 
enue and  Taxation.  He  received  in  the 
convention  which  nominated  him  for  the 
Constitutional  convention  the  highest 
number  of  votes  cast  for  any  candidate 
for  the  position  named,  and  was  similarly 
honored  in  the  convention  which  named 
him    as    a    State   senator. 

When  the  first  State  legislature  con- 
vened, Mr.  Cannon  was  chosen  president 
of  the  senate  as  the  unanimous  choice  of 
his  colleagues. 


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THE  STATE  OF  UTAH. 


UNITED  STATES  SENATOR  CANNON. 
Frank  J.  Cannon,  the  senior  senator 
from  Utah,  was  bom  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
Utah,  January  25,  1859;  was  educated  at 
the  University  of  Utah;  became  a  news- 
paper man  by  profession  and  established 
the  Ogden  Standard,  which  was  the  first 
daily  paper  in  Utah  to  espouse  Republi- 
canism; has'  held  numerous  official  posi- 
tions in  Weber  county,  where  he  resides, 
and  for  two  years  prior  to  his  election  as 
delegate  to  congress  was  a  regent  of  the 
university  at  which  he  received  his  edu- 
cation. He  served  one  term  as  secretary 
of  the  territorial  council;  was  a  candidate 
for  delegate  to  congress  in  1892,  and  was 
defeated  by  Hon.  J.  L.  Rawlins,  whom 
he  in  turn  defeated  for  the  same  office 
two  vears  later.  He  became  a  candidate 
for  the  United  States  senate  before  the 
firsit  State  legislature  and  was  elected, 
receiving  the  full  Republican  vote  of  both 
branches  on   the   first  ballot. 


ADJUTANT  GENERAL  CANNON. 
John  Q.  Cannon  was  born  in  San  Fran- 
cisco. CaL,  April  19,  1857,  and  came  to 
Utah  as  an  inflant,  his  parents  having 
been  in  California  only  temporarily  on 
business,  and  except  for  three  years'  ab- 
sence in  Europe,  he  has  resided  in  the 
State  his  whole  life.  He  is  a  graduate 
ot  the  University  of  Utah;  a  printer  by 
trade,  having  served  a  regular  appren- 
ticeship; was  editor  of  the  Ogden  Stand- 
ard two  years,  and  has  been  editor-in- 
chief  of  the  Deseret  News  since  October 
1.  1892  He  enlisted  in  Troop  C,  First 
cavalry,  N.  G.  U.,  in  May,  1894,  and  was 
unanimously  elected  -its  captain.  Ten 
months  later  he  was  elected  major  of 
cavalry,  and  on  May  1  was  appointed  ad- 
jutant general  with  the  rank  of  brigadier 
general;  was  reappointed  by  Governor 
Wells  May  5,  1896.  and  confirmed  by  the 
State  senate.  He  served  one  term  in  the 
territorial  legislature;  one  term  as  city 
councilman  for  Salt  Lake  City,  and  one 
term  as  regent  of  the  University  of  Utah. 
He  Is  the  eldest  son  of  Hon.  George  Q. 
Cannon,  and  married  Annie,  daughter  of 
G^eneral  Daniel  H.  Wells,  who  was  for 
twenty  years  at  the  head  of  the  territo- 
rial militia. 


UnAH  AS  A  MIXING  STATE. 


Beautiful  Salt  Lake,  as  she  stands  to- 
day the  acknowledged  queen  of  this  great 
inteirmountain  region^  owes  much  of  her 
greaitnees,  hier  importance  and  her  prom- 
inence to  the  magniifloent  mining  camps 
with  which  she  is  environed,  without  the 
of    which    the    city    would    not 


be  much  more  than  a  way  station  on  the 
great  trunk  lines  that  join  the  great  east 
with  the  greater  we©t. 

It  is  not  the  purpose  to  describe  here 
th.ese  mining-  camps  in  detail,  to  do  which 
would  more  tJhan  fill  the  pages  of  this 
puiblication ;  but  rather  in  a  brief  way  to 
give  passing-  notice  of  a  number  of  the 
leading  dilstrlcts  in  the  new  stajte. 

Park  City,  beyond  doubt,  is  the  home 
of  the  greatest  dividend -paying  mine  to  be 
found  in  the  west,  and  ©very  Utah  citi- 
zen points  with  pride  to  the  Ontario, 
wMoh  has  paid  over  $13,500,000  in  divi- 
dends, and  is  today  In  better  condition 
frbjaji  ev*»r.  with  mamm/^.h  ore  bodies  in 
.sight.  There  are  other  dividend  payers 
in  Park  City,  among  the  number  being 
t^be  Dalv.  with  $2,850,000  to  its  credit;  the 
Silver  King,  with  $600,000:  the  Crescent 
and  a  score  of  others  that  have  helped 
to  swell  the  wealth  of  the  world. 

The  camp  of  Bingham,  a  few  miles 
west  of  Salt  Lake.  Is  doubtless  one  of  the 
areatest  gold,  silver  and  lead  districts  to 
be  found  In  this  Intermountain  region, 
and  tOd!av  it  is  making  a  splendid  show- 
ing, with  over  20O  producing  mimes  to 
boast  of.  among  the  most  prominent  of 
thes*»  being  the  Old  Jordan  and  Galfena, 
the  NIajB-ara,  the  DaltoTi  &  Lark,  with  Its 
five  great  mines:  the  Tosemite.  the 
Phoenix,  the  Northern  Lie"ht.  the  Benton, 
the  Winnamurk  and  the  Bntterflf'id.  and 
the  tonnage  of  ore  from  this  camp  alone 
would  be  considered  great  In  any  mining 
district  in   the  west. 

Tinitic  disitrict.  in  .Tnab  county,  is  an- 
other ramn  that  stands  out  In  gratifying 
promlnenre  among  the  leading  CP'mr)s  of 
tiiiifj  refrion.  and  1+  is  here,  at  Eureka, 
that  aire  locate  suoh  wp^ll-knowp  mines 
ns  the  Buillnon-BpoV  that  h&R  n<aid  $2,000,000 
fn  di-^HWoprtcs:  t<b*>  Cen^^ennial-Enreka.  that 
y>»fi>  S1.7?;0.ono  to  its  credit,  and  that  nald 
^720.(VV>  in  dlvidpnds  dnrint'  the  oast  year; 
fhf^  THii^eka  Hi'l.  with  Jtl  !iOO,000  paid  In 
fJlividAnds:  the  Gemini -Kevstone.  with  Its 
$600,000;  while  at  Mamr.oth.  in  the  same 
di<!t(Hct.  I*?  to  h*»  foimd  the  great  M'^'m- 
motb  mInA.  which  has  paid  a  million, 
VvA5si<lp*,  wbfch.  scattered  throughout  the 
district,  th^re  are  many  old  producers 
t^at  have  paid  handsomelv  and  are  Rtlll 
fsoTirfincr  out  their  streams  of  precious 
miptals 

The  Horn  Silver,  at  Frisco,  is  an  old 
and  stfadv  producer,  and  Its  showlnsr  of 
$5,000,000  In  dividends  is  verv  gratifving 
to  its  stockholders  and  to  the  public  at 
la.rge,  while  In  and  around  this  rich 
cf.mp  there  are  a  number  of  other  pro- 
d'UKvrs  that  hav«p  made  excellent  records 
\x\   fh^  wnv  of  dividends. 

M*>rc"r.  Utah's  great  erold  camn, 
tboue-h  bnt  still  In  Us  infa.nov.  has  made 
a  maemlflcent  showiner.     The  Mercur  mine 


THE   STATE   OF   UTAH. 


has  paid  $500,000  to  date,  while  there  are 
now  four  other  mines  in  the  district  that 
are  dally  adding-  to  the  ilmiperifiihable 
wealth  of  the  world,  and  it  is  confidently 
believed  that  before  the  end  of  another 
year  a  dozen  more  mines  will  be  running, 
and  that  at  least  most  of  them  will  be 
paying-  dividends. 

Besides  these  there  are  numerous 
camps  in  Utah  that  have  been  and  are 
still  fajnouB  as  dividend  payers,  among 
them  being  Stockton,  Marysvale,  Ophir, 
Silver  Reef,  Big  Cottonwood,  Alta,  Silver 
City,  Diamond!  and  many  others,  to  say 
nothing-     of     the     new     districts    of    La 


Plata,  Newton,  Deep  Creek,  Skull  Val- 
ley, Pelican  Point  and  the  Uine  districts, 
all  of  which,  with  their  rieh  mineraliza- 
tion, promise  to  rival  the  older  camps 
with  development, 

Utah  is  one  of  nature's  greatest  min- 
eral depositories,  and  although  her  mines 
have  made  many  fortunes  and  assisted 
very  materially  in  the  upbuilding-  of  Salt 
Lake  and  other  cities  and  towns,  the 
fact  remains  that  the.  mining  districts 
have  been  but  barely  scratched,  and  that 
in  the  future  the  output  of  Utah's  mines 
will  be  greater  tnan  ever  before. 


POPULATION    OF    UTAH. 


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Box  Elder  I    7,642  8,331|  4,329|  4,002| 

Cache I  15,509  18,2861  9,1461  9,1401 

•Carbon   | 3,6961  2,3161  1,380| 

Davis    I    6,751  7,4S0|  3,773|  3,707| 

Emery  |    5,076  4,390|  2,308|  2,082| 

Garfield I    2,457  2,888|  1,512|  1,376| 

Grand    |       541  891|  605|  2861 

Iron  I    2,683  3,1231  1,5401  1.5831 

Juab ,    5,582  6,466|  3,535|  2,931| 

Kane    I    1,685  1,908|  9701  958| 

Millard    I    4,033  5,375|  2,833|  2,542| 

Morgan    |     1,780  2,261!  1.1701  1,091| 

Piute    I    2,842  1,7271  9181  809| 

Rich    I     1,527  1,781|  93-i  8501 

Salt   Lake    I  58,457  68,182|  33,8551  34,3271 

San  Juan   I       365  500|  288|  212| 

Sanpete    i  13,14G  15,538|  7,847|  7,691| 

Sevier    i    6,190  7,893|  4,042|  3.851| 

Summit    I    7,733  9,631|  5,344|  4.2871 

Tooele    I    3,700  4,428|  2,481-  1,947| 

Uintah  1    2,762  3.967|  2,130|  1,837| 

Utah  1  23,768  29.2291  14,7801  14,449| 

Wasatch    j    3,595  4,4081  2,2641  2,144| 

Washington    |    4,009  4.6191  2,2621  2,3571 

•♦Wayne    I  1,520|  795|  725| 

Weber I  22.723  25,015|  12,719|  12,296| 

Total    1207,905 


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2,7041 
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3,4151 
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23,8241 
3.6371 
4,2121 
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1,760|  8,Z06 

4,3931  18,262 

1,5791  3,649 


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CONTENTS. 


PAGE. 

Area  of  Utah 57 

Banking  Institutions 57 

Biographical 64  92 

Constitution  of  Utah 9  35 

Constitutional  Convention — Members  of. 35-37 

District  Court  Judges 55 

Federal  Officers  in  Utah — Officials  of. 57 

House  of  Representatives — Members  of. 41 

House  of  Representatives — Employes  of 42 

Hoese  of  Representatives— Rules  of. 47-53 

House  of  Representatives — Standing  Committees  of...  53-55 

Legislature— the  First  State 38 

Mining  in  Utah 92-93 

Nationnal  Guard  Officers 37 

Officers  of  the  State  Boards  of  Government — Pesonnel 

of..... 37 

Officers  of  the  Territory 57 

Population  of  Utah  by  Counties 93 

Population  of  Cities  of  over  1,000 55 

Railroads  in  Utah 58 

Senators— Election  ot  United  States 55 

State  Institutions— Governing  Boards— Officials  of. 37-38 

State  Lands 57 

State  Senate— Members  of. 39 

State  Senate — Employes  of 42 

State  Senate— Rules  of 42-47 

State  Senate— Standing  Committees  of 47 

Vote  for  Legislature— Senators  53-61 

Vote  for  Legislature — Representatives : 61-63 

Vote  for  State  Officers 94  95 

Woman  Suffrage 58 


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